But director Simon Stone and screenwriter Moira Buffini take meticulous care to guide the viewer through the excavation, connecting remembrance to death and past to present throughout the nearly two-hour runtime. I expected a stuffy period drama, a heavily romanticised version of real-life events. With that said, The Dig affected me in a way that I wholly didn’t expect. Less than a year later, my friend would be gone, but I will always remember that day, the way the time-worn stone felt under my hands. I’ve thought about that day often since then, the long-dead warriors whose monuments I could touch. In one spot, two rows of stones met, parted, and met again in a longboat shape.
In 2015, I was visiting a friend in Sweden when his partner took us to the island of Oland, where you can touch the monolith headstones of the Vikings buried there. There are certain places that, when you visit, you can feel the weight of time pushing up from under your feet.
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