Where did the three missing people go? ? In fact, from the beginning of the film, there are countless hints that this is a landslide (or similar natural disaster).
Clue 1: A flock of frightened birds. When Miranda and his party first arrived at the foot of the mountain, the beautiful scene suddenly changed and switched to a disturbing flock of birds. I remember that it took about 10 seconds. What does this mean? Do animals perceive danger? Behind the beauty, there is a potential danger. Although I don't know what it will be. But the next animals all have similar restlessness.
Clue 2: Edith is an inconsistent person. Edith pretended not to remember after the tragedy. But when looking for Miranda and his party on the mountain, I accidentally penetrated into seeing the missing teacher running up the mountain, and he was dressed very funny. In addition, Edith saw a red cloud. A red cloud? What did you think of? By the way, Australian red clay. Perhaps it was a large area of red dust that was produced when a stone fell on the ground during a landslide.
Edith didn't tell the truth about the whole thing, but only selected the parts that she found interesting. The French female teacher was actually suspicious, just as she slapped Edith anxiously at the end of the film and said she was Liar. Of course, the French teacher did not have direct evidence that she was lying. This was a guess deep in her heart.
Finally, since Edith was lying, why did he ask what happened in front of the survivors? Isn't Edith afraid of being exposed? No, we can regard this as a manifestation of guilty conscience. I am eager to know whether the survivors really amnesia (it turns out that Irma really forgot), so as not to cause harm to myself.
Clue 3: Edith's hallucinations. When people are confused, many things are not so real. For example, the three girls seem to be controlled by some mysterious force and walk up the mountain. All of these should be understood as Edith's unreal feeling, or simply as Edith's lying, there is no such thing.
Clue 4: The old man's telescope. Everyone should remember that a shot was given to an old man. He was looking at a crack in the mountain. The shot was stopped for a while. How did it feel to you at that time? The feeling to me is that the girls are there, or something similar! ! They are trapped by the stone! ! This is a very obvious hint!
Clue 5: What exactly did Michael see? According to the plot behind the film, it is speculated that Michael climbed up the stone to see Irma. But why not save her? Instead, holding a rag from the girl's clothes? That's because he saw the dead Miranda while climbing up the Rock. My guess is that Michael climbed up the Rock alone and found a stone blocking the intersection. He suspected that Miranda and the others were behind the stone. He moved the stone with difficulty (corresponding to why he was panting behind him), and found Irma, lying on the ground unharmed. At the same time, it was found that one of Miranda's clothes was exposed outside the other stone (Miranda was crushed to death). He tore off the rag sadly, took it in his hand and sat down where he came from with his eyes blankly, until someone found him. Later, because he couldn't let go of this matter, he refused to mention what he saw on the mountain. And Irma happened to have really amnesia.
Clue 6: The title of the film. Everyone, take a closer look at the title, Hanging Rock. Hanging Rock, it literally means "hanging rock". As Miranda said when they came to Rock, "Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place." The hanging rock fell at the exactly right time and place." The stone fell, afterwards~~~
Clue 7: The teacher's insight. In the scene on the carriage, the teacher talked about her knowledge of Rock, showing her rich knowledge of geology. Before the landslide happened, the teacher seemed to be suddenly alert. I presume that with her professional geology knowledge, she perceives a possible disaster. Therefore, I went up the mountain alone to find the students, and ended up being trapped by the stone (or directly dying). When the landslide happened, it was estimated that the time was so short that none of the students sleeping under the mountain heard it.
Well, the above is just some of my personal speculations. There are unavoidable loopholes, please correct me.
The reason for writing this film review is to think that for such an exquisite and beautiful sketch, many people have put on a disproportionately large theme, which is really a misunderstanding of an excellent work. In fact, in many works, there is no need to deliberately contact the so-called background of the times. Those are things that teachers deceive students in school. To truly understand a work, in fact, you only need to look at it with your heart, feel it, and restore it to its true original appearance.
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