It’s just a kids movie, it’s not brainwashing…. right?!?

Sorry this is a real “read if you can’t sleep one” and I might be way off with this one, possibly because I’ve not had enough sleep or whatever, BUT… I recently ended up watching a Disney Pixar movie called Hoppers with my kid, and yes I know, I was asking for trouble with Disney! Now on the surface this movie is about a eco warrior girl who transforms into an animal robot to help the animals whose homes are about to be destroyed by a human development, a fairly standard story type these days… but once you start watching you start to see that’s not the story at all, and in reality it’s NOT a story about rebelling to protect the weak, but a story about defending the invading oppressors of the weak. And it also starts to seem like conditioning to a real world situation in the Middle East.

Spoiler alert. The story starts like I said, rebel girl wants to save a glade where wildlife has lived for generations, asshole developer has somehow scared off wildlife and is going to build on the now “uninhabited land” for the “humans” to use. Girl finds out scientists have for some reason made robot Avatars of the animals that you can project into (like Avatar, and yes they make that joke) and gain the ability to talk to the “animals” (although the scientists don’t really do this or care for the animals that much so there’s no point).

Girl gets in a beaver avatar (interesting choice Disney) then finds where the animals are and that they have a king. The animals have left the glade because the Israe… sorry “humans” have bomb… sorry, put up “sound emitters” forcing the “animals” to leave their homes, and are now bulldozing the Gaz… I mean “glade”. So far so good. Poor animals. Fuck the developers. Can’t wait for developers to get what’s due….but then it flips.

Girl meets passive, dumb beaver king and he’s like “well we all need to share the glade, even with the humans” girl says “no you should fight for you homes”. Beaver says there’s other animal kings they have to OK that with so they meet up. They don’t know the girl isn’t a real beaver at this point. They meet with the other animal kings and queens and they say “Hell yeah, let stop the development and squish (kill) the bitch ass developer!” But then the girl changes her mind and starts saying “we can’t kill him, that’s too much” one of the queens is a butterfly and starts to argue with the girl, she then “accidentally” kills the butterfly queen in front of its own son, sparking a generational trauma (but it’s presented as funny, because it’s not an Isra… I mean “human”)

After this the “heroes” spend the rest of the movie trying to protect the “democratically elected” developer (forgot to mention the developer was also the mayor! Animals only have tyrannical kings. Go democracy!) from the animals who are trying to reclaim their stolen homeland. In the end, the animals turn on the new butterfly king (he’s obviously the most hard line and the only other character to be murdered apart from his mother) and then the animals finally gain their freedom by… bending the knee to the human mayor/developer and allowing him to make the decision, and of course he grants them mercy and allows them a small patch to live in as long as the animals accept that the humans know what’s best for them, and any sort of resistance is wrong, but in a jolly Disney way. Yay, dumb, passive beaver king was correct all along.

Now call me crazy, but this seems like EXACTLY what elites want society to be, especially with regards to isn’t-real and Palestine. Also as much as I hope one day to find a conspiracy that doesn’t lead back to the one place they all lead back to, the screenplay and co writer, Jessie Andrews ticks that box.

Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in!