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the mess. In the fear. In the fox and the bunny and the subway and the mirror.

a world where we’ve all been darted by fear. Nick Wilde and the Mask of the Sly But the film offers a quieter, more painful kind of searching. Meet Nick Wilde. The fox. The con artist. The mammal who was told at twelve years old, while trying to join the Junior Ranger Scouts, that he couldn't be trusted. “A fox is a predator and a predator cannot be anything else.” Searching for- zootopia in-

The subject line sat in my drafts folder for three months, naked and unfinished: “Searching for- zootopia in-” the mess