Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Many Australian movies which dealt with mysteries of the nature have been hits at the box office. And this 1975 flick is one of them. We are advised to be outdoors but these unanswered questions tells us that there are many mysteries of Mother Nature lurk among us. The aboriginal cultures had a mutual respectful relationship with nature which unfortunately, modern thinking man tend to take for granted. The appreciation of the splendour and greatness of things on Earth is slowly on the decline evidenced by the resurfacing of many of its age old landscapes and pillage of its resources.
This Ozzie flick generated many interests over the years. It story was based on a 1967 book. Even though it is supposed to a fiction, it has become a source of many discussions and arguments on the possible explanation of the reported mysterious loss of the teenage school girls at a park on Valentines' Day of 1900.
Extensive investigations and search parties never found them but one of the girls was later found alive but had absolutely no recollection of the turn of events.
In midst of all these, the headmistress also has her own issues with finances. One of the students who is an orphan has problems keeping up with the fees and in suspended.
This film, when shown in an international arena, had one director throw water over the screen to express his disappointment with the inconclusive and unconventional ending. Many questions are left unanswered which precisely got the people talking. Some even toyed the idea of alien abduction!
Over at our local level in the twenty first century, we are angered by desecration of our mountains by certain mischevious youthful acts of visitors. Even though, direct correlation between dastardly acts and natural catastrophe are laughable if one tries to, nevertheless, respect for the unknown is of paramount importance as Mother Nature has the bad habit of giving a smack on your head when you are cocky! Respect begets respect!
This Ozzie flick generated many interests over the years. It story was based on a 1967 book. Even though it is supposed to a fiction, it has become a source of many discussions and arguments on the possible explanation of the reported mysterious loss of the teenage school girls at a park on Valentines' Day of 1900.
The film starts with in a all girls boarding school. The shots in soft lens to the sounds of melodious soft flute music and giggly school girls caressing each others' hair reciting silly lovey-dovey poems may just be an opening scene of a B-grade soft porn but it is not but it just add on to the mystery of the unexplained disappearance of three school girls later in the story.
Somebody even researched and found that 14th February in 1900 was not Saturday as described but instead a Wednesday.
19 girls with 2 teachers went on a picnic to The Hanging Rock. Cooped in a regimental environment, the girls find liberation as they are transported in a carriage receiving catcalls and admirers. At he picnic site, 4 girls, with the permission of the teachers, went out to venture up the rocks. They never returned. Two boys who happened to be camping there are also somehow also get embroiled in their disappearance.
Somebody even researched and found that 14th February in 1900 was not Saturday as described but instead a Wednesday.
19 girls with 2 teachers went on a picnic to The Hanging Rock. Cooped in a regimental environment, the girls find liberation as they are transported in a carriage receiving catcalls and admirers. At he picnic site, 4 girls, with the permission of the teachers, went out to venture up the rocks. They never returned. Two boys who happened to be camping there are also somehow also get embroiled in their disappearance.
Extensive investigations and search parties never found them but one of the girls was later found alive but had absolutely no recollection of the turn of events.
In midst of all these, the headmistress also has her own issues with finances. One of the students who is an orphan has problems keeping up with the fees and in suspended.
This film, when shown in an international arena, had one director throw water over the screen to express his disappointment with the inconclusive and unconventional ending. Many questions are left unanswered which precisely got the people talking. Some even toyed the idea of alien abduction!
Over at our local level in the twenty first century, we are angered by desecration of our mountains by certain mischevious youthful acts of visitors. Even though, direct correlation between dastardly acts and natural catastrophe are laughable if one tries to, nevertheless, respect for the unknown is of paramount importance as Mother Nature has the bad habit of giving a smack on your head when you are cocky! Respect begets respect!
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