Digger
Wow! Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu’s Digger is being written off as one of the biggest box office flops of all time. That Digger was panned by most major critics certainly didn’t help. The viewers seemed more impressed, but if word-of-mouth was so positive, it wouldn’t have been such a flop. Or would it? There are rumours (from reliable sources) that Digger was intentionally undermined by the fossil fuel industry spreading the word that the film was a dud. I’ll wait to see some definitive evidence, but given the way the fossil fuel industry has knowingly undermined life on the planet for the past century and that it is primarily responsible for the climate change which now threatens our survival (while still pushing for more), it seems all too credible. Back to the major film critics, who have described Digger as “pretentiously bleak”, “a hate-letter to cinema”, “incompetent”, “ham-fisted”, “lacking any subtext or meaning”, “this movie is to funny what Exxon is to Greenpeace”, “devas...
