悬崖上的野餐

不成熟，但令人喜爱的第一部电影（想象一下如果自己第一部有这样的水平，会是多么令人欣喜），比《穷山恶水》更好。后来威尔显然没有气质上的进步却丢失了英式的飘渺灵性，《死亡诗社》之类的粗糙在此也已经可见一斑。在这里，我们能看到一个用直观拍电影而还算有些许天赋的人会一下子做对多少镜头、搞坏多少镜头。人物摄影几乎都不错；除了悬崖顶上摇晃的镜头。许多手持广角仰视自然景观，罗伊格行为，极为丑陋，令人生厌。看上去许多中途的自然景没有经过好好研究，非常草率；地域景物方面，胡金铨是不可否认的大师，应该研究，而要掌控广角镜头必须要钻研博格丹诺维奇和威尔斯。教室和许多办公室等内景丑陋，我们必须研究如何正确拍摄。鹦鹉和考拉突然马利克，令人恐惧。外景，一些傍晚的颜色和情态捕捉得好，教育我们正确而不盲目地选用光圈的艺术；另一些地方的光圈则失败，糊得像粥或硬得像沙子。Bertie的梦属于《聊斋志异》，怪；最好他和Sara的联系从不得到确认。校长的线结束得愚蠢，结尾大林宣彦卡帧也愚蠢。

人物设定很有趣——剧本不错。我喜欢两次梦的启示，它们有一种类似《偷窥狂》结尾私语的效果，甚至更美妙。结尾之前一段冗长；在Irma（Sara为什么不喜欢她？ww）和法语教师一段后接上Sara离开的情节即可，她也没必要自杀（而且选用奇怪的方式在奇怪的地方）。侦探片段结束后表现生活残酷地继续的片段不需要那么多，温室一场为代表即可（那里含羞草的镜头处本应有一个神怪符号，可惜或许剧组没找到，否则会极为精妙）。前面部分配音再专业一些（不要这么像课文录音），就够得上一点小小的完美了。

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失踪的女孩

The mystery of what happened to the girls goes unsolved in the novel, which includes a biographical note about Lindsay’s own Australian boarding school and her childhood in the district where the novel takes place, and an author’s note suggesting that it might be a true story. When director Peter Weir went to discuss the film rights for his 1975 adaptation, he was warned not to ask if something had really happened, but he did anyway. Lindsay said she hoped he wouldn’t ask again. So Weir asked if the question of what occurred was open-ended. Could they have fallen down a hole or been abducted by aliens? She said yes, it could have been any of the above.

Others had the same two oddly linked questions: was it a true story, and what happened to the characters? People searched old local newspapers in vain for mention of missing girls. In 1980, Yvonne Rousseau published The Murders at Hanging Rock, examining all the competing theories, including a parallel universe, UFO abduction, and a gruesome murder committed by two young men, leaving no trace. Australians read the book in school and became obsessed with the mystery.

According to Lindsay’s literary agent, John Taylor, she was impatient with the questions in part because she knew what happened. She had written, in those productive four weeks, a final, twelve-page chapter explaining how it all ended, and she’d turned it in with the book. Her publishers told her to cut it, so she did. But when she was 84, she gave the chapter to Taylor to be published after her death.

In the missing chapter, published as The Secret of Hanging Rock (stop reading if you don’t want to know), the girls hike up the rock and reach a circular plateau, where they begin to feel strange. Their math teacher, Miss McCraw, appears in her underwear, but they don’t recognize her. They take off their corsets and throw them off a cliff, and the corsets hang in the air. Seeing the suspended corsets makes the girls understand that they’re in the presence of a time warp, and they follow the math teacher into it, through a crack in the rock. They enter another dimension and never return.

You can see why the publishers told Lindsay to get rid of the ending. The earthly mystery is what gives the novel its impact. And people took the author’s note about fact and fiction seriously because the novel, with its romantic crushes, maddening injustices, and sweltering heat, is so realistic—because Lindsay was so good at making her characters feel like real people, to which something terrible had happened.

摘自外网

镜头很美，故事很简单，一群女孩出游，4个女孩自己上山去岩石那里，1个胖的吓跑了回去，一个老师失踪了，然后就是一直找不到。有一个当时见到他们的英国贵族青年有某种责任心差点半死在山上过夜发现了Irma一周后还活着，伤口也很少，而另外三人还是不见，学校压力越来越大，记者也不断炒作舆论，教师辞职，最后女校长竟然上悬崖找人而死。Sara是失踪的Miranda的好姐妹，孤儿，不受欢迎，学习差，没得出游，而米兰达没了她也很绝望，学费也没人教，最后被退学，跳楼自杀掉落在植物温室。她想念在孤儿院分别的哥哥波蒂，殊不知他就是贵族的仆人，也想念她。女孩上山消失前脱了袜子，从Irma推测也脱了胸衣，而胖女孩回忆女老师只穿内裤，似有性压抑。没有解开的神秘。Sara说M知道很多秘密，比如自己不会回来，还有意义不明的植物棚含羞草，神秘。还有突然停下的手表，还有那几句后来闪回的话，什么一百万年就等我们，一切在正确的地方开始和结束，感觉反倒故弄玄虚。猎犬、警察到处搜寻却找不到，七天在山上却被找到而活着，最后校长和法国老师独自吃饭说失踪的女老师被强奸谋杀，更不明不白了。综上，或许这些反常的东西只是一个象征，关于女性解放这一类话题，还有澳洲和英国的关系——可以看到学院里面维多利亚女王的画像，英国国旗，老校长们的画像。