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Digger is not exactly bringing audiences to the cinema, but it’s certainly inciting conversation amongst those who’ve seen it. Despite its poor performance at the box office, the ranks of Digger fans continue to grow and now include the creator of Metal Gear. Hideo Kojima praised the film for how it tackles its themes and ideas and, in a conversation with its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, even compared the film’s narrative to his own game Metal Gear Solid 2. After calling Digger “a film that all of us living in today’s world should see” on his social media accounts, Kojima expanded on why he felt that way in an interview with Iñárritu for Gizmodo Japan. The film, which dives deep into climate catastrophe and misinformation in the form of both comedy and intense drama, drew comparisons to movies like Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove and Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator in how it forces audiences to examine the current state of the world by abstracting it into absurdist satire. “It’s not a story where meteorites fall from the sky or aliens attack, instead capturing things that are actually happening in reality,” Kojima says of the film.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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Masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of European diplomats on Saturday during a visit to the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Belgium’s foreign minister Maxime Prevot said. The attackers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives in the village of Taybeh, 5 kilometres northeast of Jerusalem, according to Prevot.