What do you think about Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock? Do you love it or hate it and why? Which other films do you believe create fascinating yet unsolvable mysteries? Thank you so much for watching!
i became fascinated with this movie when I first saw it aged 10. To me, along with the novel, it is an ethereal, beautiful mystery that enchants, delights & terrifies the viewer. just the aesthetic alone is mesmerising & i love it passionately! its not for those who require beginning, middle & ending structure, but if you like to use your imagination it can offer a challenge. Either way, Peter Weir created, IMHO, a wonderful movie from Joan Lyndsay's timeless classic. Enjoyed your review, thank you.
Good video! I just watched the film and I thought that the mystery of Hanging Rock more serves to expose the dysfunctions of the boarding school. Mrs. Appleyard turns into something of a tragic figure, someone who gradually realizes that she does not harm than good, and that realization was not possible without a jarring event
Thank you so much! That's a great observation, and gives me another reason to rewatch this film - it's been a little while, but I really like your perspective of the disappearance unveiling thr dysfuncfions within the school. Thank you for watching and for such an insightful comment! 😁
This film contains the most memorable editing "segue" since the one in 2001 A Space Oddesssy, when the young man remembers the beautiful lost girl dissolving into the image of a swan.
Terrific piece. You've captured what I've often felt about this film and it's probably the single biggest influence on my appreciation of film. Not everyone can be comfortable with ambiguity. Or a lack of resolution. But in Picnic, it's not the movements of the plot that satisfy. There's something more. It's the reflection that life's mysteries may not easily diagnosed and cataloged. Of course, subscribing to that view point, is tantamount to surrender today's age. Every thread in a movie today must be explored, explained and dissected until no life or energy remains. A dull thought. Give me the tantalizing unsolved mysteries of Picnic any day.
Agreed I felt a lack of clarity even with the characters. I felt like I was watching the characters but wasn’t being told their emotions. How they were feeling. For that reason, they felt one dimensional rather than multidimensional. Perhaps that is what weir wanted to convey.
This movie reminds me of cold case missing persons that are really old and wont ever get solved but people still like to revisit them and give their own explanations and read theories on what really happened. We naturally want s conclusion but it's exactly the mystery that is haunting us in the first place. This is way more scary to me than the murders that havr been solved no matter how gruesome they are. Because there is something unbelievably tragic about mystery that is forever lost in time because time is the one thing we cannot fight against. It feels also extremely lonely that those people disapoeared like that and no one knows what happened to them, and then the time passes as well. Such melancholy, how fleeting the life is and how unpredictable and cruel it can be...
In all seriousness, this is an interesting take to me because you seem to engage in it as if it's some sort of whimsical puzzle that can't be pieced together but I always thought of it as an unconventional horror film and found everything about it unsettling.
Thank you so much! It really is rather unsettling, but whenever I watch this film I just can't help but also find it somewhat comforting. There's disturbing images that come to mind when I think about this film, but simultaneously I feel an alluring warmth, a bit like the hypnotic spell the girls are seemingly under when they explore the rock, I suppose I feel that regarding this film, I just feel drawn ever closer to it.
What you call a hypnotic spell, I would call a curse... You may wonder what happened exactly but I saw it something that's simply horrific because you'll never know what happened and there is no answer.
@@styleissubstance on the wiki page of the book you can read the actual ending written by the original author, and it pretty much spells out the ending for you. even without reading this though, it's pretty clear the events of the movie are "caused" by the aboriginal dream.
@@styleissubstance There is an answer. Do you all forget that this is based on a book? The last chapter, that was hold back for a while, was released by the author a while ater and it explains what happened. In my opinion, it doesnt ruin the magic and its super interesting cause the author must have had knowledge about certain spiritual concepts.
I love this film, and the lack of answers or resolution is one of the best things about it. This is what makes the film truly special and beguiling, and I don't mean that we can all come to our own conclusions, to me there are no conclusions, I don't want to try to guess or deduce what actually happened. There is no answer. To my mind by trying to come up with an answer we would be destroying the magic that the film conjures. We can just let it be what it is. The characters in the film may crave answers, but we don't need to. Thank you for covering such excellent films and hopefully bringing them to the attention of people who may not know about them.
It's my own music, I make new music for each video. It started as a way to just get me back into producing music and it's just kinda stuck into my routine that I make new music each week now for each new weekly video 😁
What do you think about Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock? Do you love it or hate it and why? Which other films do you believe create fascinating yet unsolvable mysteries? Thank you so much for watching!
i became fascinated with this movie when I first saw it aged 10. To me, along with the novel, it is an ethereal, beautiful mystery that enchants, delights & terrifies the viewer. just the aesthetic alone is mesmerising & i love it passionately! its not for those who require beginning, middle & ending structure, but if you like to use your imagination it can offer a challenge. Either way, Peter Weir created, IMHO, a wonderful movie from Joan Lyndsay's timeless classic. Enjoyed your review, thank you.
Good video! I just watched the film and I thought that the mystery of Hanging Rock more serves to expose the dysfunctions of the boarding school. Mrs. Appleyard turns into something of a tragic figure, someone who gradually realizes that she does not harm than good, and that realization was not possible without a jarring event
Thank you so much! That's a great observation, and gives me another reason to rewatch this film - it's been a little while, but I really like your perspective of the disappearance unveiling thr dysfuncfions within the school. Thank you for watching and for such an insightful comment! 😁
This film contains the most memorable editing "segue" since the one in 2001 A Space Oddesssy, when the young man remembers the beautiful lost girl dissolving into the image of a swan.
Terrific piece. You've captured what I've often felt about this film and it's probably the single biggest influence on my appreciation of film. Not everyone can be comfortable with ambiguity. Or a lack of resolution. But in Picnic, it's not the movements of the plot that satisfy. There's something more. It's the reflection that life's mysteries may not easily diagnosed and cataloged.
Of course, subscribing to that view point, is tantamount to surrender today's age. Every thread in a movie today must be explored, explained and dissected until no life or energy remains.
A dull thought.
Give me the tantalizing unsolved mysteries of Picnic any day.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, I agree so much with your comment! 🙏
Agreed I felt a lack of clarity even with the characters. I felt like I was watching the characters but wasn’t being told their emotions. How they were feeling. For that reason, they felt one dimensional rather than multidimensional. Perhaps that is what weir wanted to convey.
This movie reminds me of cold case missing persons that are really old and wont ever get solved but people still like to revisit them and give their own explanations and read theories on what really happened. We naturally want s conclusion but it's exactly the mystery that is haunting us in the first place. This is way more scary to me than the murders that havr been solved no matter how gruesome they are. Because there is something unbelievably tragic about mystery that is forever lost in time because time is the one thing we cannot fight against. It feels also extremely lonely that those people disapoeared like that and no one knows what happened to them, and then the time passes as well. Such melancholy, how fleeting the life is and how unpredictable and cruel it can be...
In the last chapter of the book, you can read what happened. Its just very confusing to people who have no knowledge of certain spiritual concepts.
You have a wonderful gift for articulating the hidden beauty of film that hides in plain sight but dances just out of reach.🎂🔪💌
Oh thank you so much, that's such a beautiful thing to say! I'm really glad you enjoyed my video!
In all seriousness, this is an interesting take to me because you seem to engage in it as if it's some sort of whimsical puzzle that can't be pieced together but I always thought of it as an unconventional horror film and found everything about it unsettling.
Thank you so much! It really is rather unsettling, but whenever I watch this film I just can't help but also find it somewhat comforting. There's disturbing images that come to mind when I think about this film, but simultaneously I feel an alluring warmth, a bit like the hypnotic spell the girls are seemingly under when they explore the rock, I suppose I feel that regarding this film, I just feel drawn ever closer to it.
What you call a hypnotic spell, I would call a curse... You may wonder what happened exactly but I saw it something that's simply horrific because you'll never know what happened and there is no answer.
@@styleissubstance on the wiki page of the book you can read the actual ending written by the original author, and it pretty much spells out the ending for you. even without reading this though, it's pretty clear the events of the movie are "caused" by the aboriginal dream.
@@styleissubstance There is an answer. Do you all forget that this is based on a book? The last chapter, that was hold back for a while, was released by the author a while ater and it explains what happened. In my opinion, it doesnt ruin the magic and its super interesting cause the author must have had knowledge about certain spiritual concepts.
The answers are in the last chapter of the book. It doesnt destroy the magic since what happened is very...abstract.
I love this film, and the lack of answers or resolution is one of the best things about it. This is what makes the film truly special and beguiling, and I don't mean that we can all come to our own conclusions, to me there are no conclusions, I don't want to try to guess or deduce what actually happened. There is no answer. To my mind by trying to come up with an answer we would be destroying the magic that the film conjures. We can just let it be what it is. The characters in the film may crave answers, but we don't need to. Thank you for covering such excellent films and hopefully bringing them to the attention of people who may not know about them.
The answers are in the last chapter of the book and even though I read it, the magic is still there.
What's the music in the background?
It's my own music, I make new music for each video. It started as a way to just get me back into producing music and it's just kinda stuck into my routine that I make new music each week now for each new weekly video 😁
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