Here is my extremely spoiler-heavy review for Digger (link below). The long and the short of it is that it is a masterpiece, albeit one which is open to many possible critiques and misinterpretations.
Review coming later, but preliminary thoughts on DIGGER:
While there are some critiques I understand, appreciate, and take seriously, I think a lot of critics (especially American ones) are coming away feeling attacked. The claims of didacticism are extremely overblown.
I’ve asked this before but is there any historical event that is like the Opposite of 9/11. Like something so good that happened that it changed the world forever
I'm not nostalgic for the midrange-budget drama: they came with so many strings attached that directors were tied down like Gulliver on Lilliput. It was a recipe for either applauded just-above-average successes or derided exceptionally good (via struggle and conflict) bombs.
Saw an American refer to writing about film as a "worthless hobby." As if the act of thinking, writing, and expressing oneself could never be worthwhile unless one was getting paid for it. What a stupid, misologistic way to look at art.
I think we need to not infantilize women, including her decision to have children after receiving that sentence. Window of opportunity and all that, but even so, she knew what she was doing re: absence in her children's lives. Likewise inviting in a film crew to document.
I think they needed a woman or two in the crew. Elizabeth was postpartum, still nursing, tears swimming in her eyes because she was days away from missing a huge part of her kids’ childhoods. She was in a state of complete ego loss.
Felt very strange to see The Shining international cut (I wrote a short review why I didn't find it as good as the longer American cut) and to not see the scene with the doctor and Shelly Duvall trying to excuse her husband's abuse with the longest cigarette ash.
Exactly; both terms describe genres, and, as such, are a matter of marketing and convenience—useful, vague, elastic, non-exclusive, and, yes, to use your word and Bazin's, impure.
My wife posted a photo of herself in a group chat with friends of herself crying because I said I'm too lazy to make soul cakes this year T_T come on dude