While he’s working on one mound, a pile of dirt falls onto Mr. Edith wants Basil to dig up the biggest mound first, but he decides to wait and work on the surrounding smaller mounds. Therefore, Basil is pressed for time to work at the estate. It’s a difficult year as England is about to enter into World War II against Germany. She invites Basil, an employee at the local Ipswich Museum, to work on the mounds.īasil insists on being paid generously and being housed full-time with the other employees at the estate. Edith and her husband always dreamed about digging up the mounds at the estate, but he passed away before they had the chance. However, as Edith becomes more and more ill, she decides to finally excavate the possible burial mounds on her property. Edith also suffers with chronic heart pain but doesn’t know the specific cause for her illness. Edith lives with her son Robert due to the fact that her husband and father have passed away. The movie starts as Basil Brown, a middle-aged amateur archeologist, arrives at Edith Pretty’s estate in 1939. Streaming on Netflix, THE DIG is a moving, superbly acted, immaculately produced period drama that contains a few biblical references and celebrates motherhood, the preservation of history and British patriotism, but it’s marred by some foul language and immoral, occult and homosexual behavior, content and references. Set in 1939, THE DIG depicts the astounding discovery by amateur archaeologist Basil Brown and landowner Edith Pretty of a treasure trove of Sixth and Seventh Century Anglo-Saxon artifacts on Edith’s large estate in Eastern England. Light Christian, moral worldview celebrates motherhood, preserving history to benefit people and society, man kindly gives an orphaned boy good advice, and recognizing hard work and success in discovery, with strong patriotic elements that include a fictional character serving in the Air Force for England and the British Prime Minister says, “May God bless us all” as Great Britain goes to war with Hitler’s Germany, and with biblical references to Jesus Christ’s comment about rendering unto God and Caesar in Mark 12, Noah’s Ark and to the biblical story of the coin in the fish’s mouth, marred by some Romantic, pagan, immoral, occult, and homosexual content such as a comment about an eclipsed moon indicating “the gods are angry,” woman refers to spiritualism about three times, younger married couple splits up because it becomes evident her husband is interested in other men, the married woman falls for another man, and the husband goes off with another man himself, and elitist professional archaeologists look down on talented, hard-working and self-taught amateur archaeologist and deny him recognition for a major discovery, but he eventually gets recognition after his death, plus some revisionist history (for example, the romantic subplot involving a female archaeologist, and the lead female character’s cousin, a fictional character, is added, and the ages of three real characters are changed significantly to match the ages of the actors) Content:ĭominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements: MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for THE DIG. Also, some biographical facts have been changed to make the movie more dramatic. However, the movie’s positive content is marred by foul language and immoral, occult and homosexual behavior and content. It contains a few biblical references and celebrates motherhood, the preservation of history and British patriotism during the onset of World War II. THE DIG has a light Christian, moral worldview. On Netflix, THE DIG is a moving, superbly acted, immaculately produced drama about Britain’s greatest archaeological find to date. Meanwhile, Edith, who has a cute young son, finds out she has a heart condition that could be fatal. However, as World War II approaches, Basil gets pushed to the side when national experts from the British Museum arrive. Basil makes an incredible discovery when he uncovers an artifact-laden, royal burial ship from the Sixth Century. Basil is hired by a wealthy, widowed landowner, Edith Pretty, to excavate the apparent funeral mounds on her large estate. ![]() Set in 1939, THE DIG focuses on Basil Brown, an amateur archaeologist who works for Ipswich Museum on England’s eastern coast.
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