can you dig it?

A synopsis can’t do it justice, really—and so, while I’m the sort of person who usually scoffs at the Spoiler Police, consider yourself warned: I think you really do have to see Digger cold, which means you have to go through the rug-pull move around a third of the way through and stay with it. (I was warned in advance that there was a rug-pull, though not of its nature—and it was still jarring, but mostly I think in a good way? But I can well believe that a lot of the negative reviews I’ve seen came from people who are used to being spoonfed superhero rubbish, because it’s really not that bad. I’m not enough of a cineaste to be able to call to mind any obvious precedent, but I’m pretty sure there’s nothing here that’s any harder to handle than the average Terry Gilliam movie… but then again, Gilliam’s never really had a mainstream success, presumably for that very reason. I’ll also note that a lot of those negative reviews compare Digger to Megalopolis, and they clearly don’t mean it…