Iñárritu Says DIGGER Rewards a Second Viewing
Iñárritu says DIGGER's structure is deliberate, and that the split response the film has drawn is what that structure sets out to produce, so the second viewing is the real test of whether it works.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu came to Japan for the release of DIGGER and gave an interview about the film's divided reception. He said the story's structure lets audiences arrive at the truth gradually, and that a second viewing reaches deeper layers of the work. The film stars Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, an oil company CEO whose greed triggers a global crisis.
The film stars Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, the CEO of an oil company who cares only about profit. His greed brings on a crisis in which half of Earth's continents are submerged, and he is ordered to clean up the damage himself.
Iñárritu said the original idea contained neither the finished structure nor the elements now in the film. In the nine years since he started conceiving it, he said, reality changed faster than the writing could keep up, so he changed the film's concept of time and space. The aim, he said, is for viewers to reach the truth as if peeling an onion.
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