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Mystery? No. Just women manifestating their sexual repression [Spoilers]


The question remains: What happened to the girls? I know what happened. Miranda was so pretty she had to disappear and become something intangible. The other girls were just followers and Hanging Rock's magnetic fields were just amplifiers of their beauty and hysteria. No wonder the chubby and whiny one wasn't pulled into the vortex.

Sara was in love with Miranda and she felt her energy. After Miranda became one with the universe, she felt sick and eventually was murdered by Mrs. Appleyard (again, that's my theory) because there was jealousy as well. Miranda took two of her pupils and the other chaperone who was probably having an affair with Appleyard.

The only happy woman in that movie was the maid who was having an affair with the handyman, who tells her "I love you" and she happily smiles.

In Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude there's a character named Remedios the Beautiful, who also disappears in a cloud of lights because her beauty was painful to all of us mortals.

Another question is why was the girl found not wearing her corset?

Javier H. Moreno
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Comfort?

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