The Match (2025) and The Dig (2021)

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Watched two "based on true story" Netflix film features, The Match (2025) and The Dig (2021). As in all artistic license in fictional biographies, the true story must only be ten percent like limited alone to the names of the protagonists, but these two are really entertaining, and indeed great directorial accomplishments for turning difficult subjects interesting. 

THE MATCH
Baduk or Go, the sports interestingly presented in this film despite it's a boring boardgame.  I must have said that because I am so ignorant of this game and experienced an online version of it once out of sheer curiosity.  

The true story herevmust be limited on Korea's D-9 level teacher Cho and  pupil Lee, who both eventually played against each other & beat each other in the matches. 

THE DIG. 
This ultra fictional film based on ultra fictional novel. This "based on true story" is worth the fictional personal tales if only to present one of England's important archaeological finds in the mounds found in the vast estate of Mrs. Pretty. 

Dark ages is not dark at all. They unearthed the shape of an anglo-saxon boat made if fully decayed oak woods which was a burial site of an important figure whose body has also fully decayed but full of ornaments and coins and these were all dug against the backdrop of the world war. The British Museum housed these finds. 

Must confess that I decided to watch this because I missed the Ralph Fiennes acting on screen.

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