Great stab at an alternate explanation. Like someone told in class to sum up their own explanation after reading the book. Interesting journey and left open, as both book and film, even the Lost Ending referenced. It got an 8 from me for the acting, decor, costumes and production values. Also because it indicates a great sense of time (timelessness), place (in-between - feminism, squashed identity) and emotion (sensuality). In essence it felt real enough. Could my time have been better spent? Probably, and the backstory of Appleyard was not fleshed out enough. Yet it still manages to work its magic (indigenous - a little more inclusion here of aboriginal mysticism/metaphysics, just to heighten the level of mystery, would have really sold it!) and mystery. Like life most things are unresolved. That is the lesson. It's all in process, becoming, and the fixation (the vagaries) of memory.