While telling us the story of Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) and Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), who employs him to excavate burial mounds in her property in Suffolk, England, a softness suffuses the narrative. It is as much about relationships, the humanity of some, as the arrogance of a few, the generosity of an ailing woman as the meanness of others. Only The Dig, streaming on Netflix, is not merely limited to the talent of one such excavator, a self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown whose rightful pace in British history can’t be denied. Unsung/real heroes have been a theme of many a film.
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