‘Digger’ is the year’s big climate movie. This climate reporter hated it.
Tom Cruise’s latest film is a crude parable about an unrepentant oil executive.
If you scroll down to the list of "Carbon Majors," you will eventually encounter a company called Continental Resources. This firm, ranked around 150th, has produced nearly 600 million tons of carbon dioxide since 2005 alone. The founder of this company is Harold Hamm, an American oil executive who grew up poor in Oklahoma and now uses his wealth to influence government policies.
His character is depicted in Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film Digger, where he is portrayed as a plutocrat who built his father's oil company into a global concern. The film explores two questions: the responsibility of such individuals for the consequences of global climate change and the appropriate approach for an artist to address this issue.
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