13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Racism & Segregation)
Roger Rabbit may have seemed like a nice, child-friendly movie (in spite of the rather terrifying Judge Doom) about a world in which real-life human beings and cartoon characters lived alongside each other, but there’s actually an underlying message in the movie about racism and segregation.
With Roger Rabbit accused of killing human Toontown owner Marvin Acme, there is a state of unrest between humans and toons – the latter who, despite mingling with humans on a day-to-day basis, do live in their own designated area. This whole situation is said to be representative of the segregation and state of unrest between African Americans and whites in 1940s America.
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