![]() ![]() Maybe all those people did really exist, I’m not sure, but sometimes a film will amalgamate a number of characters into one or two just to simplfy matters. Ralph Fiennes is very pleased to have the chance to inspect Carey Mulligan’s mound. It takes about an hour before they begin to unearth anything non-ship worthy from the site which you might later see on Antiques Roadshow, for example. This film could’ve been wrapped up in 90 minutes if they hadn’t dragged it out with too many characters. ![]() ![]() It simply tells a story without any wow factor. However, while there’s nothing majorly wrong with the film, it’s merely just passable for a couple of hours viewing on a Sunday afternoon, but not one you’d rush home to see. The film brings us lush viewes of the Suffolk countryside, and a pleasing complimentary violin-based soundtrack, and as is shown by the trailer, they unearth a ship buried under the mound, festooned with a ton of trinkets, along with doing battle with the elements, as they get torrential rain at one point. ![]() The Dig begins in 1938, in Suffolk, where Edith Pretty ( Carey Mulligan, Collateral) had learned there were approximately 18 ancient burial mounds on the Sutton Hoo estate, near to her home, so she summons M ( Ralph Fiennes)… sorry, archaeologist Basil Brown, to get stuck in, and this film tells the largely untold story of his excavation of the site, since his work wasn’t at all recognised for many years after.īut it’s a race against time, partly because she has an underlying health condition (she had pneumatic fever as a child), and partly because 1939 and World War II is just around the corner, since that’s bound to knacker any excavations, and it’s certainly stopped the British Museum getting involved from an early stage, hence why Basil’s called in. ![]()
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