Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger Is a Climate Satire That Doubts Satire

Everyone Hates ‘Digger.’ It’s the Perfect Climate Movie

The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power.

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger Is a Climate Satire That Doubts Satire

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger, which stars Tom Cruise as the eponymous hero, turns a climate satire into a play within a film and asks what art can do. Its cynicism is exhausted.

Don’t let anyone spoil ‘Digger’ for you

Near the beginning of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger,” oil baron Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) is briefing the president and his Cabinet.Digger, preoccupied with his terminally ill cat, has just set off a calamitous global environmental disaster and is meeting with the president to mitigate the fallout.None of us, not even the most rational people, is immune to the power of emotional messaging.The president, played by a slimmed-down John G…