![]() ![]() And yet it contains genuine goodness we should praise. The film portrays human optimism more than Christian hope. Yet, as Basil’s wife excavates his motives, ‘You told me your work’s not for the past or even the present but for the future, so that the next generations can know where they came from.’ We despair over why we ‘dig’, blind to the bigger picture. We’re focused on yesterday’s losses, today’s repetitive spade-work, and tomorrow’s post-lockdown relief. Sadly we, like Basil, give up when discouraged. Amongst it all, Basil grasps for a sacred significance in the mundane dig: ‘That speaks, don’t it? The past.’ Planes ominously and obliviously fly over buried treasure, preparing for war. The Dig celebrates one of the most significant ancient finds in UK history whilst acknowledging the ever-present shadow of death in Edith’s strained heart. There’s something timely in the discovery of good news against the backdrop of bad. Edith is the young, widowed landowner with a shared interest in archaeology and a curiosity to discover what lies below the huge mounds of earth on her land. Brown delivers life lessons with both a gentle understatement and – my Suffolk friends tell me – a very credible accent. It centres on Basil, the self-taught excavator. This month’s most-viewed Netflix film tells the true story of the Sutton Hoo excavation in Suffolk in 1939 and the subsequent discovery of an Anglo-Saxon king’s burial ship. In The Dig, it’s found in conversations more than excavations. Sometimes treasure is found in surprising places. ![]() From the first human handprint on a cave wall, we’re part of something continuous. ![]() We don’t live on.’īasil Brown – ‘I’m not sure I agree. ![]()
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