Digger (2026)

Wombat

Blackwing Lair Raider
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I was in the 'willing to see where the twist goes' camp, despite nothing in the shot structure / blocking / special fx up to that point plausibly existing in a play, but I don't think the backstage material goes anywhere. It just felt like leftovers from Birdman he couldn't fit in.

At the same time, this is absolutely NOT an anti-environmentalist movie. The ending proves that their atmosphere is fucked, and Plemons' speech makes it clear that people blame the fossil fuel industry for this and are right to do so. But it also just focuses on white Americans and their government - while the US, Russia, and Canada are 3 of the 4 biggest petroleum producers of the world, 16 of the top 20 countries aren't white people - and ignores that the rest of the world is using that petroleum, or else it wouldn't be profitable enough to dig up.

At the end of the day it is something different, despite the muddled presentation and message - the problem is that something is just a Birdman rehash.