

Of course the entire point is that there is no explanation.


Did she levitate? There is even a book, The Murders at Hanging Rock, that explains that the disappearances were fiction, but nevertheless offers several theories, including UFO abduction, for what happened. Much was made of the fact that the movie is set on a Saturday, and Valentine's Day did not fall on a Saturday in 1900 did the girls disappear into another time line? Were they raped by two teenage boys who were also on Hanging Rock that day? Did they simply fall into a crevice? What about the girl who was found alive a week later? She had lost her shoes, and yet her feet were not injured by the sharp rock paths. A cottage industry grew up in Australia about the novel and the movie old newspapers and other records were searched without success for reports of disappearing schoolgirls. The movie is based on a 1967 novel by Joan Leslie, then 71, who presented it as fiction but hinted that it might be based on fact. In a sense, the viewer is like the girls who went along on the picnic and returned safely: For us, as for them, the characters who disappeared remain always frozen in time, walking out of view, never to be seen again.
ROCK DOG FULL MOVIE YOUTUBE FREE
The result is a movie that creates a specific place in your mind free of plot, lacking any final explanation, it exists as an experience. Weir has pared seven minutes from an already lean and evasive film. The movie, which has been long out of release and unavailable even on video, has been restored in a new "director's cut'' that, unlike most revisions, takes out footage instead of adding it.
