‘Digger’ Review: Laughing While the World Burns - Cinema from the Spectrum
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Digger is one of those movies where you walk out of the theatre not entirely sure whether you liked or hated it. I’m reasonably certain, however, that I won’t forget it. That contradiction feels right for a filmmaker like Alejandro González Iñárritu. Somehow, the film has managed to keep one of the biggest twists of the entire year under wraps. I remember watching the first trailer for Digger and immediately thinking that the film was going to divide audiences. And thus spoke the prophet: it turns out I wasn’t far off.
Digger has been marketed as a comedy, and yet I can’t say that it’s a particularly humorous movie. The villains are cartoonish, the performances exaggerated, and if you watched the trailer and dismissed it as “another climate change movie that’s going to lecture its audience,” you could hardly be blamed. Normally, you might even be right. What is surprising about Digger, though, is that it assumes greater sophistication from its audience than its blunt satire initially suggests. Everything seems obvious until the film eventually reveals what the joke actually is.
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