How can a small archaeological story make a grand epic? This film does it. You might think there is a magnificent ancient mausoleum in the movie, but it's really just a messy earth pit. The movie is based on true events. In 1938, on the eve of turmoil, the hostess of a manor, Edith, hired an archaeological excavator, Basil Brown, to excavate mounds on her land, and they soon made a surprising discovery. . For the general audience, this story is really unremarkable. However, the movie endows some of the characters with no peculiar attributes, which makes them have a wonderful chemical reaction under the framework of this story. This film can be called an event photography collection. A large number of backlit wide-angle lens images create a unique sense of clarity. Wherever the image reaches, whether it is a portrait or a landscape, it is all beautiful, natural, and classical. The performances of all the characters are subtle and natural, and the conveying of emotions is subtle and restrained. After watching it, it can be described as endless aftertaste. Under the mound are the remains of thousands of years, which confirms the existence of human beings. Above the mound is the vast starry sky. They are the imprints of light years and the existence beyond human consciousness. In contrast, these people who bowed their heads and excavated were just dirt and gravel in the blink of an eye. However, these people also began to think for thousands of years and light years. In this major archaeological discovery, they also made important choices about their own lives.
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