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Iñárritu's climate film starts a conversation
Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Digger, starring Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon facing environmental ruin, has sparked debate about how cinema can confront climate change.
In brief
Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Digger, starring Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon facing environmental ruin, has sparked debate about how cinema can confront climate change. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu's climate film Digger, starring Tom Cruise, has divided critics but opened conversation about the overwhelming…
Iñárritu's climate film divides critics
Digger, directed by four-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Tom Cruise as oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, has drawn wildly different responses. Critics have called it everything from a masterpiece to a flop.
“Critics have called it everything from a masterpiece to a flop”
The chaos is the message
Rockwell discovers an environmental disaster looming from his relentless oil pursuit and faces an angry tribunal of world leaders. Iñárritu says the film's loud, chaotic scenes represent how overwhelming climate change really is.
“the disaster is us”
Melting ice inspired the story
Iñárritu was inspired to make Digger a climate film after struggling to find ice in Argentina for snowy scenes in The Revenant in two thousand sixteen.
What to remember
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu's climate film Digger, starring Tom Cruise, has divided critics but opened conversation about the overwhelming scale of environmental disaster.
