Animal Kingdom will follow in the tradition of Disney's True Life Adventures nature films that gave many young Americans in the 1950s their first glimpse of ecology.
Somewhere in this stew of stories is an attempt to savor the many ingredients of a modern multicultural city, as well as an old-style injunction to follow your dream, but neither is discernible for long, due to the ham-fisted nature of the filmmaking.
Only longitudinal studies that follow the economic lives of the same people over long periods of time have the power to reveal the true nature of income inequality, along with the various factors that cause some people to be more economically successful than others.