In 2010, the world was introduced to a horde of yellow, overall-clad creatures: the Minions.
These banana-loving evildoers followed their leader, Gru (Steve Carell), in all of his villainous pursuits, yet even over a decade later, the larger dynamics of power at play have gone widely unscrutinized.
Is it because this relationship between Despicable Me’s Gru and his Minions (Pierre Coffin) in no way warrants any level of serious discourse? Possibly.
But another possibility lies in the fact that we simply haven’t had enough information available to us about the origins of the Minions’ employment to Gru.
Until now.
The Minions: Rise of Gru finally shines a light on the wider symbolic implications of these chaotic creatures, how they came under Gru’s employment, and what they can teach us about our own world.
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