The Depth of Digger – Emina Melonic
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5 Articles
The Slovenian philosopher-star Slavoj Žižek has pointed out that commercial apocalyptic cinema is characterized by a fundamental contradiction. In these films, one can often observe the destruction of entire cities or even continents. However, even in such circumstances, the basic assumptions of the capitalist system remain valid. This logic is summarized in the famous formula: the end of the world is easier for us to imagine than a world withou…
I've been digging for weeks. I dug into lockers, reviews, tweets, fan groups where they fight over a movie that most people haven't seen, interviews, forty years of weird decisions. And at the bottom of the hole I found an image that I can't get out of my head. It's not the box office. It's Tom Cruise converted [...]
González Iñárritu and Tom Cruise meet the limits of satire and meta-references. The question is “what stories are they going to tell about the fire?” and the answer always alternates between films that smell the fuel or catch the spark, films that dance between the flames and films that write about what happened with the soot and the ashes. The tenor of the first type of films is varied, because their augurical character can be given for minimal…
Alejandro G. Inarritu's The Dig is perhaps the most ambitious, most political of the repertory films currently showing in theaters. It's just a bit of a shame that it's more theater than cinema, and the most interesting and controversial ideas unfold at the end of the film.
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