Disney's "Zootopia" ( or here in German speaking Europe "Zoomania" )

While I commend Sia and Shakira for a relatable song about getting up after mistakes and accepting that we need to make mistakes to come forward in life.  This song has been stuck in my head now for the last few days. 

And Disney did a wonderful job about inclusion and some funky plot twists.  But there was a section of the film that haunted me, in the negative portrayal of people with a mental illness to be dangerous.  Making the general public to be scared of them. These were portrayed as "raubtiere" (in German) and it was in their genetics to be dangerous. And the psychiatric hospital was portrayed as a dark scary place to visit.  That these animals were captured and kept in cells.  And that they would suddenly jump at you.   ( it was later proved these animals were drugged to prove a myth). it left me asking my daughter about this scene considering her experience of coming to visit me at a psychiatric clinic for a number of months.  Yes it scared her when the tiger jumped up at the glass but she didn't relate to her experience.  

But it sits with me a bit uneasy as I am the one with the mental illness.  I see the stigma that is continually installing the fear of this illness that people with mental illness are dangerous and it is in our genetic makeup. It is scary for families to see such a dramatic change in their loved ones. But there is also hope with the right care, and good hospitals.  But people are still insinuating this negative stigma makes the daily battle that much harder for those living with varying mental illnesses - @Disney  you still have a ways to go with regards to continuous usage of negative stigma towards certain groups of people.

That being said we loved the usage of sloths in the DMV office. Many of us can relate to how slow the wheel turns in beaurocratics and not only the DMV.  The expressions of "flash" were priceless.