Picnic at Hanging Rock

Great stab at an alternate explanation. Like someone told in class to sum up their own explanation after reading the book. Interesting journey and left open, as both book and film, even the Lost Ending referenced. It got an 8 from me for the acting, decor, costumes and production values. Also because it indicates a great sense of time (timelessness), place (in-between - feminism, squashed identity) and emotion (sensuality). In essence it felt real enough. Could my time have been better spent? Probably, and the backstory of Appleyard was not fleshed out enough. Yet it still manages to work its magic (indigenous - a little more inclusion here of aboriginal mysticism/metaphysics, just to heighten the level of mystery, would have really sold it!) and mystery. Like life most things are unresolved. That is the lesson. It's all in process, becoming, and the fixation (the vagaries) of memory.

I'm not sure if I had problems with this production or with the novel on which it was based (and, by the way, the novel was a fictional work although the original publications and the TV series presents itself as real events). This series was suppose to follow the novel more closely than the movie adaptation, but, although the mystery was woven well, the ending was very disappointing. [spoiler] It hints at possible answers but doesn't resolve the questions it posed, and the final choice of the primary character played by Natalie Dormer made no sense at all. [/spoiler] The cast played their parts well. I was introduced to some new and promising talent. But the plot payoff failed for me. I was giving the episodes 7s (good) and 8s (great) until the final episode which was a 4 (poor) for me. [Period Mystery]

DEFINITELY not the eerie masterpiece of the other "renaissance" of australian film....i give it a maybe

Total waste of time after the second episode, felt nothing got resolved. Time I'll never get back, though the acting was pretty good.