Filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu said his new satire Digger, starring Tom Cruise as an oilman, is meant to unsettle audiences. The film, a roiling critique of climate change and corporate power, deliberately blurs truth and reality. "We have confused, in my point of view, reality with truth," Iñárritu said before the film's release.
Despite largely negative reviews and poor box office returns, Iñárritu embraced the polarizing response. "I prefer that to the lukewarm reception," he said in a recent interview. The movie, gestating since 2017 with four co-writers, collapsed three times during development. Iñárritu was drawn to the project after filming The Revenant in 2015, when disappearing ice in Ushuaia sparked the central theme.
Originally titled "Blah, Blah, Blah," the film explores how language and narrative can manipulate perception. Iñárritu praised Cruise's commanding presence, calling him "a wordsmith" whose performance dominated even 300 extras. The satire evolved as real-world events outpaced fiction, with imagined disasters becoming reality.
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