This film started nicely enough with soft-focus Hamilton-ish girl-exploitation footage, school-girls waking up to a sunny day, combing their hair and so forth. In fact I firmly expected them to go skinny dipping at some point. There is pan flute music by Gheorghe Zamfir (very hip at the time) and flying budgies inter-cut with many nice looking pictures of the Australian wilderness.
There is almost a Nicholas Roeg feel in the way some scenes are juxtaposed in that "Roegesque" cutting technique but his "Walkabout" 4 years before on a similar subject is much better.
People wonder about the meaning of this picnic movie come on, it's sort of a mystery but it's really not worth exploring. It's for people believing in "meanings" of everything that happens. People who believe in the accuracy of the contents of fortune cookies. People who have lots of time.
Basically this seems to be about Europeans lost in an Exotic environment. If you don't agree just go and invest your time into exploring alternative meanings. That is still much better than playing ego-shooter games 20 hours a day and finally acquiring guns over the Intenet.
Peter Weir/d yet I love the look of these 70s movies, very un-spoilt, almost artistic. No CGI and no 1.300 edits a minute. Very organic.
There is almost a Nicholas Roeg feel in the way some scenes are juxtaposed in that "Roegesque" cutting technique but his "Walkabout" 4 years before on a similar subject is much better.
People wonder about the meaning of this picnic movie come on, it's sort of a mystery but it's really not worth exploring. It's for people believing in "meanings" of everything that happens. People who believe in the accuracy of the contents of fortune cookies. People who have lots of time.
Basically this seems to be about Europeans lost in an Exotic environment. If you don't agree just go and invest your time into exploring alternative meanings. That is still much better than playing ego-shooter games 20 hours a day and finally acquiring guns over the Intenet.
Peter Weir/d yet I love the look of these 70s movies, very un-spoilt, almost artistic. No CGI and no 1.300 edits a minute. Very organic.
