I’ll stop debating the meaning of Digger soon. It’s just I remember when Fight Club came out and all these people reduced it to pro-Tyler Durden. Similar things happened with American Psycho. Killing Them Softly. Saltburn. Eddington. People went hard on first reactions that are based on external ideas applied to the film rather than looking at what the film is building internally. Like Eddington isn’t about the politics of the left and right. It’s about the loss of shared reality and how that impacts politics, government, marriages, friendships, etc. I didn’t love Saltburn but I hated how many critics and film folk were saying Saltburn was a rich girl complaining about people taking advantage of the rich. But that’s not even close to what the movie’s about. It’s about someone sacrifice their substance in the pursuit of style, after realizing the world rewards the latter more than the former. I feel like we’re experiencing something similar with Digger. And I’m just spending opening weekend putting an alternative reading out there so it’s at least a seed that’s been planted. What I expect is that in a few more years, more people will read the film less cynically and more earnestly.

Film Colossus is doing really well right now. I had left it dormant for over a year, because I was going to be a dad and thought I'd get a content manager job that would provide a more stable income. But after only 10 months, the company had burned through a ton of money and had to lay off almost everyone. So much for stability. I've since applied to well over 300 jobs. With no luck. Turns out when your background is "a music podcast with 3 million downloads, a website with 10 million pageviews, and a YouTube channel with 11 million views" that corporations aren't, like...in love with that. So I decided to give Film Colossus another go. It was down to about 1,500 pageviews a day. In August, I got that back up to around 2.5k-3k. But my old content model wasn't cutting it. With Hope, I tried a new approach (ironically enough). And pageviews suddenly exploded to 5k per day. And now, with Resident Evil, I'm over 10k views just today. And a lot of those views have been from Twitter. So it means a lot that so many of you are not only checking out the work but also saying nice things about it. It's just me running the site and creating. So every like, every repost, every comment, every share, really means a lot.