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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Picnic at Hanging Rock

I can't stop yawning today! I need to try to get some sleep - my first full day of work was really busy, and I'm still adjusting to having to wake up early and be functional for so long! Even though it was tiring, I was happy to be at work today. It's tough to adjust now after being unemployed for so long, but I know that I will.

The movie that I watched today was Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir in 1975.  It was a really eerie movie. It felt like a nightmare - where everything feels off and you feel so deeply wrong about everything. The soundtrack was creepy, the acting was creepy, the plot was creepy - so much about this movie disturbed me. There was something about it that reminded me of bad dreams, when you want to shake the feeling of them but can't.  I don't know if being a little drowsy made me more suggestible to the eerie feelings in this movie, who knows. Even though I was weirded out by it, I sort of loved the movie. It's effective at being creepy, and clearly has all sorts of symbolism and odd undertones. It's pretty amazing when any movie can make you feel an emotion really strongly, even if it's an uncomfortable emotion. I really like this movie for how strange it made me feel (that sounds weird!).