Aug 7, 2026 · 53 min · 14 segments
Get ready to disappear into the landscape because Aaron and Rob are discussing Peter Weir's 1975 film, the dreamy and nightmarish and vibey poetic swirl, Picnic At Hanging Rock. Overflowing with…
Aaron HaughtonHost
Rob ChenowithGuest
One of the beautiful things about this movie is that i- if you wanna talk about plot, it, it kinda says it right on the tin.
Within the opening of the movie, you get a text crawl vaguely similar to, like, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or something, only this is actually based on a real event.
But it just tells you it's Valentine's Day, these girls from the school went on this trip, they didn't come back, no one fucking knows what happened.
Yeah, it's like, it's like this is, this is before, like, modern times, basically.
And I think this movie is about a lot of things, and it's also so, uh, wispy and, um, ambiguous intentionally that you could look at it and arrive at your own conclusions and take away from it what you want.
But I do think one of the main things the film is doing is looking at how humanity and humankind deals with the unknowable.
One of the beautiful things about this movie is that i- if you wanna talk about plot, it, it kinda says it right on the tin.
Within the opening of the movie, you get a text crawl vaguely similar to, like, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or something, only this is actually based on a real event.
But it just tells you it's Valentine's Day, these girls from the school went on this trip, they didn't come back, no one fucking knows what happened.
Yeah, it's like, it's like this is, this is before, like, modern times, basically.
And I think this movie is about a lot of things, and it's also so, uh, wispy and, um, ambiguous intentionally that you could look at it and arrive at your own conclusions and take away from it what you want.
But I do think one of the main things the film is doing is looking at how humanity and humankind deals with the unknowable.
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