Babel

Gentlemen, we find ourselves in a dildo of a pickle, says the President of the United States, as he comes to grips with the fact that a U.S. oil drilling mishap has split off a city-sized ice shelf that's on a path of destruction toward Europe and will trigger tsunamis causing untold death and destruction.

That line, exquisitely delivered by John Goodman and imposingly photographed by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu from Babel, Birdman and the Revenant, in his signature low, wide-angle style, also sums up my complex feelings toward a film whose reach far exceeds its grasp and whose satire, while funny, would have felt fresher a decade ago.

Digger follows Digger Rockwell, the oil tycoon responsible for the aforementioned ice shelf debacle, who finds himself on the defensive as he works with the president, advisors, and generals to try to stop the impending doom brought on by our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels.

And when that fails, at the very least, to control the narrative.

Digger is directed by Alejandro Inarritu.

If you are not aware, Alejandro Inarritu has made films like Amores Perros, Babel, Birdman, and The Revenant.

This time he is back to tell a different type of a story, still drama, still some comedy, but he enlists the help of actors like Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Huller, and Jesse Plemons.

Now, in the film of Digger, what happens in this movie? What the heck is it about? Well, let me give you a very quick synopsis.

This is directed by Alejandro Iñárritu of Birdman.

Of Birdman, Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Peros, one of my favourite films.

It stars Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hula.

John Goodman.

He's got some, some prominent movies from his early career that I've not seen.

Amores Peros, 21 Grams, and Babel.

But of the three movies of his I have seen, two of them I really loved.

And one of them I thought was boring as shite.

so good.

And then there's Babel, which was another great one.

Yeah.

He did Beautiful, and then Birdman.

And then in the middle of this movie, you realize, oh, no, it's actually just about these people and their lives and what they're going through and why they're here doing this in the first place.

And I thought that was such a cool twist on a crime movie.

But then he did it again with Babel.

It's in The Revenant, too.

Its sense of humor is very much- Up my alley, and the sense of absurdism, but also joy that it finds in its exploration of grief is really special, I think.

And also, um, Rinko Kikuchi, her best role and performance since Babel, and she should, she, if, if there was justice in the world, she would be back in the hunt for the Oscars.

I think the movie is a little too kooky and a little too small for Oscars to go for it, but I really loved it, and she's phenomenal in it.

And, um, also Alberto Guerra, oh.

He's going full... on like digger and that comes from his dad who made their billions digging with a shovel apparently that's how they made their fortune so he runs this massive oil operation in the arctic there was an incident where he released methane gas now it's destabilized a giant ice shelf it's going to head towards europe triggering a tsunami displacing possibly killing millions of people So this is Alejandro G. Inuratu.

Of course, he's from Birdman, The Revenant, Babel.

Some

incredible movies.