(C) 2021 Scott Freiberger. Design by @KimARichardson. By Scott B. Freiberger In the emotive, making-of-the-mammal Disney movie “Zootopia,” protagonist and officer extraordinaire Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) endures bad badgering, abundant bullying, and beastly berating while aspiring to become the city’s first crowned cottontail cop. Yet despite uncivil circumstances and a series of exhausting encounters with furtive fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), she perennially persists, prods, and pushes on. Ultimately, our flocculent, furry friend finds collaborators in questionable quarters and encounters rapport and responsiveness in virtuous vertebrate. At its core, the moving movie is a celebration of inclusion and resolution, and teaches that appearances may not only be ambiguous, but also absolutely inaccurate. The noble notion of employing empathy, kindling kindness, and trying tenderness to focus forward could also be acutely accentuated now in educati...
