Red Mosquito

The Argonaut wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Best part is you don't even have to buy the ticket.

What about the ticket taker? There are still ticket takers

Re-entry engineers.

Jorge wrote:I don't think any of the movie theaters I go to in Bs As sell tickets at the concession stand?

most of the cinemark ones sells them there if you have only cash.

Lol

Aw jeez. 2k likes. Is it a joke acct?

Jorge wrote:I've been in the US for three weeks now and been to the movie theater hree or four times, and it trips me up that movie tickets are sold at the concession stands now. Like my brain can't make sense of it

Really? I actually had no idea.

Jorge wrote:Lol

Hard to believe an adult wrote this

Jorge wrote:Lol

Hard to believe an adult wrote this

An adult wrote that. Hard to believe though.

an adult wrote that? hard to imagine

epilogue wrote:

Jorge wrote:I've been in the US for three weeks now and been to the movie theater hree or four times, and it trips me up that movie tickets are sold at the concession stands now. Like my brain can't make sense of it

Really? I actually had no idea.

Yes I arrived October 1st

Jorge wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Jorge wrote:I've been in the US for three weeks now and been to the movie theater hree or four times, and it trips me up that movie tickets are sold at the concession stands now. Like my brain can't make sense of it

Really? I actually had no idea.

Yes I arrived October 1st

I fucking knew it!

greatest country on earth

So many personal injury lawyer billboards

a nation of litigious klutzes

You losers ready to get educated?

As if the plot of Zootopia isn't screwed up enough, in the original story, the predators weren't guilted into giving up their primary essence for the benefit of the prey (which is disgusting enough in itself). They were forced to wear shock collars by the prey to be kept in line.







Zootopia, as it is, is the story of the victory of slave morality over the masters', the sick over the healthy, the resentment-filled herd over the creative and free, as told from the perspective of those who hold that morality (history written by the winners).

"B-but...but isn't Zootopia an allegory about how the prey keeps the predators in line with institutional racism? Aren't the prey animals the baddies? The villain was a sheep after all?"

Lol no you stupid baboon brain. It's the morality and very essence of meat-eating animals that is actually under attack. You fool. You absolute fool. *shakes head and laughs*

The morality of the prey reigns supreme, and thus all are judged by it, but for the benefit of the prey only. The prey animals as a class are morally superior to the predators on account of their lack of ability to be predators. But from the perspective of a predator, there would be nothing inherently superior about not being predator-like, and in fact it would be detrimental to their health and happiness. The predators (only about 10 percent of society) have to change for the benefit of the prey while receiving nothing in return but overcrowded, chaotic cities, oppression, mistrust, guilt and repression. Their way of life was destroyed long before the story takes place. The fundamental aspect of being a predator - eating prey - is depicted as evil throughout. The predators are burdened with original sin, and the predators are made to feel shame for their natural traits, while the prey gets to live in blissful righteousness. The only "good predators" are those who don't act like predators. This never changes throughout the story. This is the message: for the benefit of a herd that hates you, you must cast away your very essence and accept the moral rule of the herd and set aside your natural powers and interests. "For the greater good!" bleh!

As Nietzsche says in The Genealogy of Morals, “There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, 'These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever of the opposite of a bird of prey must be good?', there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument - though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, 'We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.'”

By making it a racial allegory, it's actually even worse. It then says that minorities are naturally violent and aggressive, but once indoctrinated with the benevolent and superior values of the majority (whites), they can become docile, productive members of the herd. They can lose those natural tendencies, so long as they "act white."

It's a very fucked universe they inhabit.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to return some videotapes.

The end of the war between the prey and predators that is depicted early in the movie is not a peaceful compromise between the two parties. It's actually the total defeat and enslavement of the Predators. Very disturbing!

I think you'll like Triangle of Sadness, Burt

might see it tomorrow.

My kid loves Zootopia, because the bunny is cute.