Picnic at Hanging Rock

I like a handful of Peter Weir movies, but not this one.

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He definitely has much deeper ones. This one is just pretty to look at, as my mother says.

That really WAS a mind****. It assaults you with the feeling of worry and lack of knowledge with a gruesome power to it.

Watched this the other day. Still processing. Found it both frustrating and fascinating at the same time. Frustrating because it could have been so much better. The limited time frame of the movie is prioritized in a way that seems to view the fascinating original story more as an artistic tool than the intriguing potential it is in itself. Kinda wished I had read the book first.
Despite that I still enjoyed it for its creepyness and (somewhat overblown) ambiguity. Gave it 7/10. Feels like it might climb higher after some more processing and possibly a rewatch.

What movie would you say come closest to this in terms of creepy mystery with a similar vibe? I can't think of any sadly.

A masterpiece that matters so much to my own life story

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Try Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)!

It's been almost impossible to see a movie. I can't even think of a handful I've seen this year, but it would have to really grab me, and I'd have to be into it pretty quickly. I'm really, really picky about movies, because I always go into a movie thinking I'm going to like it, and seeing any bad movie really depresses me on top of my current depressed state, and I've already seen thousands, but maybe I'll give it 10 minutes or something, because I've wasted 95% of my time with movies made in my lifetime, and I'm strictly a Drama fan, neo-realism, New Wave, Indie American movies and some old classics.

Have you seen Master and Commander?
Based on your description of what you like, it sounds like you might like it.

I'll admit, it's not for everyone - if you strictly only go in for superhero movies, special-effects-laden CGI spectacles, sexually-graphic gratuities, or Adam Sandler-level comedies, then a very authentic looking period piece (that is not wanting for action) may not be for you.

No, I haven't seen it. I like dramas from the 60/70s, foreign, independent, movies about people, not voyages, expeditions, capers, assassinations, mysteries, noir, action, etc.. I do like movies from the 30-50s, but mostly foreign. It's hard to find unique movies after seeing thousands of them.

Weir's masterpiece, and one of my favorites overall. I saw this again in the theater a few months back, and it's still as haunting and atmospheric as ever.

At the end, the gentleman who hosted the showing asked us how many found the ending satisfying, I was near to the front so I don't know if anyone else raised their hand, but he looked over and pointed to me, so I might have been one of the few. I was thinking in my head, "But I love Bunuel, so I'm used to not having everything explained" - for me, the mystery, the not knowing is what gets under my skin and makes it memorable.

I saw Picnic at Hanging Rock many years ago and I remember liking it for its mystery and unanswered questions. Sometimes I like the mysteries solved. In this case, I think the fact we don't know what happened to the three girls is why it works so well. The build up is the strength. By the time the movie ended, I was more interested in the interactions between the people looking than the fate of the girls. That felt like a catalyst to the real drama.

I've learned through this site I am not very good at dissecting movies from a metaphorical and philosophical standpoint, so my thoughts are typically minimal*. I will say I thought this film was really well done and had me interested the whole time. I'd love to watch Picnic at Hanging Rock again. I think I got it from Netflix on DVD though so I'll need a different way to watch it.

* - I make films, so I look at them from a technical aspect, in effect how things were written and directed and shot and edited and et cetera. I learned in undergrad that the creator doesn't decide meaning; he merely puts the art out there, and the audience decides what it means, so I have really regressed in my ability to find meaning because I'm not used to needing to do so. I made a silly little crime thing a few years ago, and it was in a small film festival, which was cool, and afterwards, one small group told me their theories about why everything happened the ways they did. I honestly applauded them for looking so deeply into it, and I told them I just wrote the script and put the film together; I didn't put any meaning in it; they did. Were they wrong? Not according to them, and given it's art, which is about as subjective as you can get, I wasn't about to argue their interpretation.

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