Word: young
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubei (Hupeh) province, the local radio station declared that April 5 to May 4 was "Uphold Public Morals Month." Citizens were directed to observe law and order, behave politely and "cherish public property." In Sichuan (Szechwan), the authorities denounced "muddled ideas and unhealthy trends" among "some young people." In Henan (Honan), the Provincial Revolutionary Committee decreed a "total ban" on posters and other publications that criticized socialism, Communist Party leadership or Mao Tse-tung's thought. In Peking, foreign residents learned that Chinese would henceforth be forbidden to make contact with them unless instructed to do so. All across...
...special treat, the young ladies of Appleyard College (it is really just a finishing school for adolescents) are to be taken on an educational outing to the base of Hanging Rock, a massive formation. The precise pedagogic function of this venture is unclear-something about appreciating more fully the depths of geologic time, perhaps the mystery of Hanging Rock's origins in violent tectonic chaos...
...seen again. One girl is rescued some days later but never speaks about what may or may not have happened on Hanging Rock. Nor does the film, based on a thriller by Joan Lindsay, offer any definite explanation. It does explore the rational efforts to solve the mystery (two young men who were near by seem likely suspects at first), and it examines how the tragedy affects the various interested parties in the aftermath...
...Blow-Up, whose director, Michelangelo Antonioni, has obviously had an influence on Peter Weir. As in the master's work, the criminal, if there is one, is society. It does not matter to Weir whether there was a sexual criminal lurking up there among the rocks, awaiting these young women who are easy prey, or if their own erotic repression led to some self-destructive hysterical act. The point is that the repression existed, and that it was not created by its victims...
This horrific tale is told with marvelous shadowy indirection and delicate lyricism. It is full of enigmatic silences, which create a nice, ironic tension between the film's genteel manner and its really quite ferocious theme. It may be seen as a mature exercise in style by a young director, if for no other reason. In addition, it is the centerpiece, so far, of the revitalized Australian film industry and the first assured work by a director who could gain an international reputation. -Richard Schickel