‘Digger’ is a Box Office Flop. It Might Be the Most Relevant Film of the Year
The trailer for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger promised an over-the top, prosthetic-laden Tom Cruise comedy—a caricature of an oil baron who has to save the world from his own actions. But despite an underwhelming opening at the box office, this sprawling, grotesque satire may be the most relevant film of the year.
Given the way the plot layers, key moments being recontextualized as the story progresses, this movie is difficult to market—or to review—spoiler-free. The broad strokes are that Digger is an oil tycoon whose drilling broke off an iceberg and sent it toward Europe, threatening to kill 100,000 people and displace more than a million. He’s a man who takes painstaking care of his sick cat while watching footage of the wildlife dying as a direct result of his actions. A man purely interested in profit, working alongside the US president, played by John Goodman, to save the world.
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