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Peter Jackson's black comedy, "Heavenly Creatures," is a dizzying pastel debacle of school-girl passion, wild imagination and murderous ambition. The film version of the true story is set in mid-1950s Christchurch, New Zealand. Is it coincidental that "Picnic at Hanging Rock," another tale of school-girl mayhem, is set in nearby Australia? In any case, historical fact is wrapped up in Jackson's fictional version like grotesque reality in frilly paper--this film is a deliciously unpleasant surprise package...
Jackson uses Pauline's diaries to conture up the patchwork of reality and fantasy worlds this plot inhabits. The viewer is bombarded by a succession of distorted scenarios--a grainy old film-strip of Christchurch, the Claymation-type animation of Pauline and Juliet's invented alter egos, the "Fourth World" they imagine as their private paradise and the dubious authenticity of mid-century New Zealand. Which world are we supposed to believe in? The extremely exaggerated reaction of Pauline and Juliet to any situation seems to fit the various levels of fantasy existence better than it fits the cramped confines...
Recently, the ER-2 flew through the exhaust of the Concorde off Christchurch, New Zealand at an altitude of 53,000 feet. Anderson's group is currently analyzing the data...
...should know -- actually, for complete, suspenseful enjoyment of the film, you very much should not know, but the word is out, so we're obliged to tell you -- that Heavenly Creatures is based on a notorious murder case. In 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were convicted of bludgeoning Pauline's mother Honora to death. The girls were "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" until 1959, when Juliet left New Zealand and Pauline went into hiding. It was recently revealed that Juliet became a best-selling mystery novelist who lives in Scotland and writes under...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, the younger you are, the greater the chance that you have suffered from clinical depression sometime in your life. The investigation combined 12 local and regional studies made during the 1980s in such places as the U.S., Taiwan, Munich, Paris, Beirut and Christchurch, New Zealand. In virtually every case, people born before 1905 had a lower rate of depression than those born between 1905 and 1914, who in turn had a lower rate than those born between...