@lucask741 Well said. I think Iñárritu is wrestling with how to meaningfully comment on our horrifying reality, and I was moved that he ultimately made that internal struggle the film, itself.
The problem with Digger is that too many writers are too eager to pigeonhole it as a “climate change satire” when the film is really about the futility of satire when the powerful have already ruined the world.
Digger. What a film. Didn't take long to understand why american critics panned the shit out of this one. The call is coming from inside the house for the people who make villains to erase their own culpability to the great crimes of our time. This is megalopolis, inverted.
IndieWire's @davidehrlich on the director and star at the forefront of "Digger":
"Alejandro González Iñárritu and Tom Cruise were made for each other, if no one else. One is a cinematic daredevil whose films are fueled by the tension between ego and mortality — a mad virtuoso obsessed with staging elaborate stunts that externalize his inner being into the stuff of outsized spectacle, and do so with a kamikaze effortfulness so extreme that even (or especially) their most grandiose work can make it seem like the person behind them is hiding from reality instead of rendering it larger than life.
The other is Tom Cruise."
Read the full review: https://t.co/HLATm8KWZ6
@CHRISF0GLE The thing with biopics is that they need to tell something about the topic. Not just recreated greatest hits. Sort of like "Control" or "Last Days".
But I have faith in Sam Mendes.
@Noalarmplanet@eventualforever What you're beatifully describing made think of all we have lost in recent media.
This modern algorithim base focus ruins the possibility of discovering new worlds. It feels by design.