It seemed fitting that Mrs. Appleyard was the last victim at Hanging Rock. Did guilt overcome her and send her to her death? Was it a desperate search for answers that would save her school? Was she drunk? Did Miss McCraw come out of the mists and give her a well-deserved kick off the rocks?
Here, another satisfying little mystery to the story.
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And did you notice how her freakishly tight coiffure started to unravel at the end, along with the social fabric? And how she talked about vacationing in the same spot forever with her husband and how she liked it because it never changed?
And Appleyard is an interesting name because it suggests cultivated nature, domesticated nature, fenced-in nature.
And Eden.
You said you had a post coming about the film. I'm also interested in what you think of the "hothouse."
Mrs. Appleyard was one of the better of the minor characters. I liked watching how she slowly unraveled. At the start of the movie she seemed very much in control, but it turned out that she was a petty tyrant who ruled by fear and not leadership. She couldn’t adapt or cope with adversity. The drunken dinner conversation about vacationing at the place that never changed was good. I hadn’t thought about her hair unwinding, kc, but that was a good visual touch to go with her drunken loss of control.
I seem to have forgotten all about Mrs. Appleyard. Erin had to remind me about the note at the end -- I couldn't figure out what y'all were talking about.
Now that I have been reminded, I'd like to think that Mrs. Appleyard died of curiosity.
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