re movies that didn't age well
@Kyresti @Leucrotta I wished for an alternate ending that wasn't so much copganda.
When she quit because being a cop is harmful, that was the most realistic part and she should have found a more ethical career.
The only good cops are the ones that quit on ethical grounds.
re movies that didn't age well
@matoakit @Kyresti Bear with me here; I agree with an online friend that, to some extent, you need to buy into a movie version of the police to make stories with police work okay. Kinda equivalent to buying into FTL travel or lasers making noises in space in movies.
EXCEPT with Zootopia, you can't. Granted the police aren't the RL version, but the story still relies on Zootopia's police being pretty terrible.
I fess up that I still really like the movie, still love the soundtrack, it's still gorgeous, and in 2016 I completely adored the thing. Some of what it had to say is still valid but... it lost a lot of appeal you know?
And, I'm pretty sure my Grampa *was* one of the few policemen who was also an okay person. He definitely was why I was so slow to adopt thinking that police as an institution need to be revamped if not completely discarded (I used to think you actually could sell them on things like de-sescalation); but knowing this individual who *didn't* and *couldn't* change how bad things are (and *were* btw), is why I really think this is a big systemic problem, that it *has* to be changed as a big systemic problem.
re movies that didn't age well
@Leucrotta @Kyresti Yup agreed 100%
There were and are good police, but usually small country Andy Griffith style departments that don't have to deal with real big city problems.
Once they get ordered to violently suppress protesters, or look the other way when their partner commits a crime, and they always do, they can't come back from that.