One of the things about film photography is that exposure on film, unlike in digital photography, is not equivalent at all to overall brightness of an image.
For example, in the digital photography world when someone speaks of an overexposed image, you instantly imagine a bright, all-white image with (probably) clipped highlights. In the film world this is not necessarily so.
Color films latitude is huge… like 2 to 3 stops for underexposure and up... more