The Current Debate: The Unbearable Preachiness of Alejandro González Iñárritu's “Digger”

The Current Debate connects the dots around a topic of the critical conversation. Digger (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2026). Speaking to The New York Times a few days before Digger (2026) hit theaters, Alejandro G. Iñárritu said that the script of his eighth feature was originally called Blah, Blah, Blah . “The film was conceptually about the most dangerous weapon that we human beings have,” he told Melena Ryzik: “This little organ that is called the tongue.” Sure enough, people talk plenty in Digger , often at unhealthy decibels, and none more than the man at the heart—or the place where the heart

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