“Life is very fleeting, I’ve learnt that.”
- Netflix’s charming period drama is already teasing bingers with a worthy acquisition of the number 1 spot in the U.K.
- The compelling tale divulges the excavation of the Sutton Hoo treasures on the crux of WW2.
- Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes are two forbearing, winsome individuals brought closer together in a touching, incredibly sui-generis friendship.
- The cinematography is breathtaking — dreamy English countrysides with hazy sunshine and bittersweet monsoon days.
- ‘The Dig’ delicately dissects human emotions, rife in conflicting desires, longing to feel, fighting for self-worth — all in an aching crusade of the viewer’s heart.
- Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) is a mesmerising, working-class archaeologist who floats above and beyond anything cruel in this ephemeral world. His vast knowledge of the cosmos and the world, in general, is modestly held.
- The dialogues are crushing, and incredibly thought-provoking.
- It’s a fresh of breath air in the period genre — we need more films that breathe such winds of humanness. We’re all human, we want recognition when due, we crave love, and we fight loneliness.
- Lily James’ slightly lesser role is still a lovely, surprising dose of gentle, summer romance.
- ‘The Dig’ puts life back into perspective with the overarching pandemic. Ultimately it’s all about loneliness — in any form — we simply don’t want to feel it
