Miriam said: “Burying him won’t be easy without some kind of spade. The ground’s soft but we need to scrape a hole somehow. We can’t just cover him with leaves.” Rolf said: “It can wait till morning. We’ll get the coat off now. It’s no use to him.” Having made the suggestion, he took no action to carry it out and it was Miriam and Theo who between them rolled over the body and eased the coat from both arms. The sleeves were heavily bloodstained. Theo could feel them wet under his hands. They composed the body again on its back, the arms straight at the side.
Actually, this is an interesting digression to the film. At the earliest spot, the film has a violent confrontation in a car in the woods, like here -- and Theo and Miraim have to bury a fallen colleague.
In the movie, though, the author's surrogate (Julian) is shot in the throat and handled similarly to (book) Luke here -- Film Julian's corpse is presided over with the filmmaker's (Alfonso Cuarón's) deeply personal mantra: "Shanthi, shanthi, shanthi." 😨
