In the torrent of time, human beings are powerless

General 2022-10-08 08:57:37

Edith was proposed at the age of seventeen, but in order to take care of his father, he did not agree to her husband until his father passed away thirteen years later. Shortly after Robert was born, her husband passed away. Growing up taking care of children alone, and then terminally ill.

Basil dropped out of school at the age of twelve and studied archaeology with his father. He has a unique sense of archaeology, but because of his education and temper, he was not recognized. After discovering the relics that can be remembered in the annals of history, they have to be marginalized.

Faced with her husband who always avoids, Peggy represses her lust, and when a better lover appears, she still faces separation.

Rory is drafted into the army and is about to enter a brutal battlefield when his family and loved ones need him.

If everyone here can be summed up in one word, it is powerless. Impotence to disease, impotence to status, impotence to emotion, impotence to future. At the same time, the country as a whole is powerless to slide into the quagmire of war.

The rhythm of the whole film is soothing, flowing quietly like a calm river, and the ships of history are parked there, motionless for more than ten centuries. The man who buried it is long gone, and the man who excavated it will die, but it will still be there for generations to come. Human beings will eventually be losers in the face of time, but if your existence can make the scale of time clearer, then your life will eventually be attached to time and shine.

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The Dig quotes

  • Basil Brown: Robert, we all fail. Every day. There are some things we just can't succeed at no matter how hard we try. I know it's not what you want to hear.

  • Basil Brown: Mark my words May. I won't receive any credit. I won't even be a footnote.