Digger starts with a shadow (‘Fossil Fools’ play) then it steps back to show the cave with leaky ceiling (the theater where the play is being rehearsed) THEN it steps back yet again to show the man holding a torch…
Every layer of the movie is packed with message, and it gives you a feast for thought; what do you think Maggie represents? Is she the Mother Nature Digger is holding onto after slowly killing her with his own selfish needs for her presence? Is she the representation of Digger Rockwell’s last shred of humanity, which died long ago but he held onto it believing he still ‘has it in him’, even after she turned into ash? Is it merely a plot device within the play to show that Digger also was a man who was capable of showing empty and love?
Was Kenny a good person? Is he playing god himself for Curtis when Hope was lost? Is art and creation of art absurd and meaningless? Should we just stop making art altogether because it doesn’t solve anything in the real world? Should art have more meaning than the mere fact that it was made by humans? Is the exchange of our thoughts meaningless if it doesn’t lead to action?
The movie is extremely thought provoking, and that’s why i see Digger the best movie of the century.
… and there are people who cannot see past the shadow of the movie and jumps up and down that this movie is climate change satire, and refused to engage in any meaningful discussion. What a sad time to live in😔
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#Digger … Was this shadow scene representing Plato’s allegory of the cave?
Is the Fossil Fools the mere shadow of actual history?
The shadow made by the flames of the torch the Rockwells been passing down, painting the perception of reality in front of everyone’s eyes?
The torch that supplies freedom to bask in their manufactured unsustainable lifestyle, whether it might be for comfort provided by oil, or safety provided by mass surveillance?
So nobody want to leave the cave, looking to regain autonomy of their own freedom, even as their ‘cave’ is drowning due to the remnants of disaster caused by their inaction?