Zootopia (2016)
The Freezer
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Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
By Andres Felipe Lopez Becerra
By Camilo Ramírez
Embrace of the Serpent is a film directed by Ciro Guerra and it is an attractive and shocking film. The script was inspired by the cosmogony of the Amazonian natives. The movie is about two stories that take place in 1909 and 1940. In both stories Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his tribe, is looking for a Yakruna secret plant with two scientists. In 1909, when Karamakate was young, he and Theodor, a German scientist, traveled together. In 1940 Karamakate and Richard, an American Scientist traveled in a similar route.
The film makes us reflect about the role that the colonialism has played in the destruction of the nature and the extinction of the Amazonian natives. In the story the loneliness of Karamakate for being the last one of his tribe is a poignant situation. The film has an artistic aesthetics because it was produced in black and white photography.
“Zootopia” is the 55th Disney animated film. It is a spectacular film that surprises its spectators with its exceptional animation and superb message. The movie is developed in a wonderful city called Zootopia, the city has different habitats in which many animals live. The story is about Judy Hopps, a rabbit who wants to be the first police of its kind. Juddy becomes a rabbit police officer but her work is not exactly what she was expecting. Judy meets Nick and thanks to him, she starts an investigation of an important case about a conspiracy.
The buildings that the spectator sees in “Zootopia” were made by the best animators. In the city everything was made according to every specific animal. Each environment has its own unique elements, for example the place where the mice live has houses made to fit their sizes and in the place where the big animals live, they can find very huge ice creams.The film shows a critical view about the discrimination and social stereotypes. This is the case of Juddy, nobody believed that she could be a police officer, because she was a little and weak rabbit. In spite of everything she became a police officer, showing everyone that they were wrong.