Talk:Zootopia/@comment-27926499-20160330111647/@comment-27997791-20160330150446

I'm not much of a film critic, so I'm not getting into wether or not the movie has substance, but I would like to say some thigns about Bellwether.

First, she did not kidnap any animals, she just had them darted to go savage. It just happened that Lionheart somehow managned (this part is logistcally strange, I admit) to locate the savage animals and contain them to keep everything quiet, allthough he did not know how or why the animals went insane or that Bellwether was behind it. Bellwether's plan was for the savage predators to be publically know, to scare people, so by capturing them to keep everything silent, he was thwarting her plan, allthough she in term may not even have known who was capturing the animals. That maybe why she made sure that Judy was put ont he case to find Mr Otterton, becasue she though Judy had a chance of solving the case for whatever reason, so that the savage aniamls would be publically known and her terrorism come to fruition. She WAS trying to unleash them upon the population as you put it, she had just hit a snag in her attempts to do so.

As for making an army out of them, that's not something she could or would do, becasue she could only make animals go insane, not mind-controll them. And she wanted the public to hate and fear predators, not to hate her, she wanted to use their fear of predators to be a political tool for her to grab power, because people are more willing to surrender their liberties if you can convince them that you're able to protect them from some threat. And she said herself that the vast majority of animals were prey and that they were stronger than the predators (hence why she thought she could opress/exile/imprisson/kill the predators if she got people to hate them), so it wouldn't make sense for her to use the predators to grab power directly, not unless she mindcontrolled (which she still can't do) much of the prey as well, at which point there wouldn't be a society left, nor could she hope to poison that many people.

And there could be plenty of reasons why she hated predators, maybe she got bullied as a kid similarly to how Judy was, but while Judy only strengthened her resolve to be better than her bullies, Bellwether may have come the opposite conclusion and resolved to get ridd of the predators and rise to power in the process.

Also, how is the movie cynical? It's about OVERCOMING stuff like prejudice, not telling you that the world is irredeemable.