Did the girls disappear into another timeline? Did the two teenage boys who were still on the hanging rock rape them that day? Are they just caught in a crevice? What about the girl who was discovered a week later? She had lost her shoes, but her feet were not harmed by the sharp rocky paths. Is she floating in the sky? There's even a book, Murder by Hanging Rocks, explaining that the disappearance is fictional, but still offers some theories, including the UFO abduction, and what happened.
Of course, the point is that there is no explanation. The girls went out into the wilderness and were no longer seen. Aboriginal people might speculate that the rock was alive in some way, it devoured these outsiders and kept silent. As these shots examine the rock in lush and intimate detail, its snakes and lizards, its birds and flowers, some of the shots seem to suggest faces in the rock, as if visitors are being watched.
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