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‘Digger’ is a Box Office Flop. It Might Be the Most Relevant Film of the Year

Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

Tarun Mottlia

Via WIRED

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‘Digger’ is a Box Office Flop. It Might Be the Most Relevant Film of the Year
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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…

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