"The Dig" is a history movie directed by Simon Stone, written by Mora Buffney and John Preston, starring Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, and Ben Chaplin.
It's called "The Excavation," but it's a biographical history movie, not a great man, but an archaeological event. Through the story, what we can see is not only the tireless exploration spirit of the predecessors in history but also with delicate brushstrokes, which leads us to comprehend the grandeur of time and space and the meaning of life and death.
Let the time go back to 1939 in the history movie, when the European continent was gradually shrouded in the haze of war, an extremely rare boat burial was excavated in Sutton Hoo, England. An ancient king's tomb, a complete warship, and a Merovingian gold coin from the sixth century AD, still lustrous today, prove that the people who once inhabited this land were not just Vikings, but also There are Anglo-Saxons, and the unearthed French gold coins, Ottoman silver plates, Sri Lankan garnets, and Syrian asphalt all prove that Great Britain has not fallen into darkness and wilderness because of the departure of the Romans, and it is still closely connected with the world. Together. The Sutton Hoo boat burial, as evidence of the civilization of the Seven Kingdoms era in England, greatly enhanced the pride of the British nation at the time of the survival of the nation and thus became the most important archaeological discovery in British history.
This seems to be just an ordinary moment in the long river of time and space, but it has an extraordinary meaning hidden in the background of the era it is in. When all political efforts in the civilized world have failed, it is seen that human society is about to slide into disaster and destruction again; when people experience the baptism of war for the first time, they have not had time to express their heart-throbbing in the shock of life and death, but in a flash When the flesh and blood are no match for the corrosion of time, no matter how much we love the people and things in the world, we cannot resist saying goodbye to them; when the boy sees his mother seriously ill, he bumps into Mr. Brown in anger In his arms, Mr. Brown did not explain the boy with his usual optimistic words, but said: "We all fail, we fail every day, and there are many things beyond our control." The archaeological excavation is like a silent monument, from the grandest It reinterprets the meaning of life and death for us from the perspective of human beings - we have existed in history since the first handprints were left on the cave wall, and we have never really died in the history movie.
In the history movie, in the face of the rolling wheel of history, some people will devote themselves to the times and sway with fate, some people will wake up in pain, say goodbye to the past and go into the unknown, and some people will still stick to their original intentions and explore civilization in the long river of time. Origin, feel the weight of the years and think about the meaning of life. Although they have independent life trajectories, the bits and pieces will eventually converge into a long poem of civilization. We are not only the protagonists in our personal stories, but also the mayflies fighting in the torrent of time. We use our meager and perishable flesh and blood to connect the bead chain of civilization little by little, never breaking, so that time, disaster, or war are all here. It has lost its power to block and destroy the bond of strength and persistence.