Isn't anyone a skeptic anymore? This is a wonderful and eerie film, but upon first watching the film, I found it obvious that this was an evil fairy tale of sorts, and the unreality of it added to its ethereal quality.
http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/m/10724/picnic-at-hanging-rock
"Wow. Our town has only had a Whole Foods for three weeks and we already have our first gay kids."
the book at any rate is written in a style that suggests it is narrating true events, with supposed contemporary newspaper clippings etc. So i suppose that causes some confusion. it certainly tries to give the impression it is telling a true story.
shareI am going to see if my local used bookstore has the book. If not, I'll have to purchase it online from Powells (first choice). You're right - I would believe that the story was true as well, being written in that fashion. Of course, wanting further information, I would have eventually discovered the truth...or maybe not! That's one of the reasons I read the threads here. Thanks for your reply.
"Wow. Our town has only had a Whole Foods for three weeks and we already have our first gay kids."I
I guess is fiction, but like all fiction, is based in true facts.
But not the fact of the dissapareance, but other more terrenal facts like what was a Boarding School in the late C XIX and early C XX. She told her experience as a former pupil, She was born rich and married someone who received title, more or less Irma story.-
Maybe Miranda and Marion were based on friends who died too young, probably after pregnancy or in WW2.-
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I don’t understand what you are saying in your post. Perhaps English is not your first language. However, I did want to respond to your statement that:
“like all fiction, is based in true facts.”
That statement is incorrect. Written differently, I think you are stating that “all fiction is always based on facts.” I believe that is what you meant, written in a different manner. However, the words “always” and “never” will usually trip one up. Absolutes rarely exist for long. This world and her people continually change, although perhaps so slowly as to be be unnoticeable.
Discussing film, I readily think of Science Fiction. There are too many other examples to begin to list them here. A prior poster succinctly wrote: “ A novel is a work of fiction.”
By the way, religion, politics and love are not part of my response. ✌
The link below is to the English Oxford Living Dictionary's Definition of Fiction:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fiction
The link below is to the complete on-line edition of "The Columbia History of the American Novel" which I am happy to have found.
https://books.google.com/books?id=2IA7o-OTyEsC&pg=PA697&lpg=PA697&dq=define+fiction+in+novel+columbia&source=bl&ots=YAqe4qEAlB&sig=OjUW8-ck_aIcuW6_Zg9r2PhdMxE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCrYXS4pTQAhVBRiYKHTGMCDMQ6AEITTAJ#v=onepage&q=define%20fiction%20in%20novel%20columbia&f=false
"Think you'll ever get me out of your blood?" "Maybe not but love has got to stop short of suicide!"
English is not my first language. Unfortunately we have to read and write in this too simple language.-
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The foreword of the book deliberately gave the impression that it was based on true facts.
And if I remember correctly the film also had the "based on true events" tag line somewhere, with "what happened next" shots at the end.
I remember seeing it at school, before reading the book, and being convinced it was true! However what I didn't grasp until I read the book was that the idea was all to do with the "Dreaming" concept of Aboriginal beliefs.