Matthew d’Ancona’s culture: Tom Cruise’s Digger is a magnificent, go-for-broke climate satire – with a hell of a twist
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Digger (general release)
In the third act of Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eighth feature film, the initially enigmatic Kenny (Jesse Plemons) makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it allusion to Neil Postman’s seminal work of cultural analysis, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985). In the age of mass electronic media, Postman argued, narrative, spectacle and sensation were supplanting rational inquiry and democratic deliberation.
This is the master key – in a story strewn with clues and eas
Digger (general release)
In the third act of Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eighth feature film, the initially enigmatic Kenny (Jesse Plemons) makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it allusion to Neil Postman’s seminal work of cultural analysis, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985). In the age of mass electronic media, Postman argued, narrative, spectacle and sensation were supplanting rational inquiry and democratic deliberation.
This is the master key – in a story strewn with clues and eas
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