Talk:The Seventh Continent (1989 film)

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Spoilers[edit]

Does this article really need to spoil the entire movie in the first few lines? I'm not some crazy person who hates any spoilers but this is pretty extreme-- knowing the ending of this particular movie in advance basically ruins the experience of watching it. It's like having "Citizen Kane is a movie about a man's enduring love for his sled named Rosebud" in the first line.

I don't want to chop up someone else's work (and frankly I don't really know how to do it), but I think if other people agree then the massive spoiler could go further on in a separate plot summary which people can choose not to read. The first part can then be a lot more neutral, so that people just looking for general information can still experience this amazing movie the way it was intended. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.36.150 (talk) 13:03, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there's any way to describe what the movie is about without referencing the suicide at the end. Augurar (talk) 21:27, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Seventh Continent is Australia[edit]

The "Seventh Continent" is not imaginary at all, but it is Australia, not only in reality but also in the film, which can be proven by several secenes; not only is the "image" shown as an advert for Australia in the beginning of the film, but also do the parents, Anna and Georg, tell the guy at the bank - when asked why they withdraw all their money - answer, they emigrated to Australia. It is pretty clear, I guess. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.93.65.41 (talk) 14:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, strictly speaking you are correct, but being almost exactly on the opposite side of the planet it also stands for "far, far away", "anywhere but here", "don't even bother looking for us".

The place they imagine has nothing to do with Australia and they never actually planned to move there.

"Australia" in that sense is only a cover and a code and means something entirely different than the country - the New Zealanders are going to beat you up if you call Australia a continent ;-). --143.50.217.13 (talk) 21:00, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]