Digger Points the Finger at Its Own Audience
This week on WVIA Pop Shop, Allan Austin, Patrick Hamilton and Kara take on Digger, the ambitious new black comedy starring Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon whose disregard for warnings triggers an environmental—and potentially global—disaster.
With a cast that also includes Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Jesse Plemons and Sandra Hüller, Digger certainly looks like a prestige picture. But underneath its Oscar-friendly cast and highly stylized filmmaking is a sprawling satire about corporate power, political corruption, environmental catastrophe, consumerism and our complicated relationship with art…
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