Alejandro Inarritu made the year’s most divisive climate change movie Digger, and that’s the point
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Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (left) with actors Tom Cruise (seated centre in grey suit) and John Goodman (seated centre with red tie) on the set of Digger.
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Melena Ryzik
“We have confused, in my point of view, reality with truth,” Mexican film-maker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu said in early October, a few days before his latest movie Digger opened in theatres.
A roiling satire about climate change, corporate overlords and propaganda that stars Tom Cruise as an unrepentant, larger-than-life oilman, Digger does not offer any easy clarity. Conceptually and stylistically, the film is a big swing, especially with a twist that deliberately frames the action somewhere between truth and reality.