19th May 2016, 5:12 PM
I personally found the religious symbolism to be insultingly obvious. Literally everyone I've talked to has told me they found all the Biblical metaphors pretty laughably ham-fisted.
You're right that there's a lot of social commentary going on beyond racism (such as the sexism you're talking about), but you can't pretend there's not also racism commentary there. Watch that news interview where the rabbit goes on about how it's the predators doing this so there's probably some genetic component and tell me that isn't a commentary on cops in the real world who occasionally make the same comments as they try to come up with some explanation for why "the blacks" seem to be doing so much inner city crime. That rabbit was grasping at straws based on what little she knew and didn't "get" why that might be harmful to the fox until he laid it all out for her pretty harshly.
Yes, films have layers, but I really don't think this is going to be some movie that eventually is "understood" as the brilliant and deep onion it truly is, because a lot of those messages were either expressed poorly or are pretty terrible worldviews to begin with.
And also just for fun, you missed one:
The Defenestrator - Windows have been symbolic since their invention for allowing someone on one side to see things on the other side. The eye is the window to the soul. That gave me a window into their world. Windows is an operating system that allows users to "see" how computer files work more intuitively. By literally throwing villains through windows, the defenestrator is telling a narrow-minded thug to open their mind to other possibilities, walk a mile in their victim's shoes. He even threw a police officer through the same window 8 times. Police often see the world in black and white, so he might have been trying to get that police officer to widen his views on justice, and 8 is a number symbolically representing new beginnings, so it's attempting to break down that officer and make him rethink his life and start anew.
This is fun.
You're right that there's a lot of social commentary going on beyond racism (such as the sexism you're talking about), but you can't pretend there's not also racism commentary there. Watch that news interview where the rabbit goes on about how it's the predators doing this so there's probably some genetic component and tell me that isn't a commentary on cops in the real world who occasionally make the same comments as they try to come up with some explanation for why "the blacks" seem to be doing so much inner city crime. That rabbit was grasping at straws based on what little she knew and didn't "get" why that might be harmful to the fox until he laid it all out for her pretty harshly.
Yes, films have layers, but I really don't think this is going to be some movie that eventually is "understood" as the brilliant and deep onion it truly is, because a lot of those messages were either expressed poorly or are pretty terrible worldviews to begin with.
And also just for fun, you missed one:
The Defenestrator - Windows have been symbolic since their invention for allowing someone on one side to see things on the other side. The eye is the window to the soul. That gave me a window into their world. Windows is an operating system that allows users to "see" how computer files work more intuitively. By literally throwing villains through windows, the defenestrator is telling a narrow-minded thug to open their mind to other possibilities, walk a mile in their victim's shoes. He even threw a police officer through the same window 8 times. Police often see the world in black and white, so he might have been trying to get that police officer to widen his views on justice, and 8 is a number symbolically representing new beginnings, so it's attempting to break down that officer and make him rethink his life and start anew.
This is fun.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)