The whole film exudes a vaguely sad and restrained mood. People more or less exude worries about the war and the confusion and fragility under the depression of their unhappy life.
Looking for, forbearing, living, but also sticking to, yearning, trying to accept and change.
Edith Pretty and Basil Brown are both obsessed with archaeology, and they have completed their respective journeys through this "digging".
Find someone in Edith to dig the place of her premonition, to find out that she is ill, to miss her husband and worry about her young son, and finally to the hope and relief of looking up at the starry sky in the ruins. Even though her body is getting weaker, she has always been awake and doing what she wants to do, participating in the excavation and withdrawing from observation and control. Being able to quickly decide to increase the salary to invite Basil, reject the request from the museum dignitaries, take back the excavated gold products for safekeeping, and express his appreciation to Basil in public.
Basil Brown has a thirst for knowledge and a loss that his career is not recognized by the academic world. When he left decisively because the payment was not negotiated, he looked at the grass with regret, revealing not only because of the dissatisfaction with the payment, but also the stubbornness that his ability was not recognized. . In May's words, Basil still insists on archaeology after earning so little money: archaeology is not for the past and present, but for the future. To be able to say such words, he is a man with ideals and feelings.
It may be precisely because Basil's situation is not going well that he knows how to respect and convey kindness. Charles Phillips, a scholar at the British Museum, used the authoritative perspective of the academic world to talk to everyone and shared the information that the ship was a tomb as his own research. When Edith took Eedith and Robert to see the outline of the boat, he credited his assistant John Jacobs for finding the first rivet. To be able to be loving and deeply reassuring when Robert sees his mother rushing out the door sick.
PS. The texture conveyed by the music of the whole film follows the direction of the story, and it is just right to lead the emotions.
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