[夢幻天堂]是真人真事改編, 片中也都是使用真實的人名, 沒有改成假的人名.
兩個女孩子中有創作天份的是Pauline Parker(由Melanie Lynskey飾演), 她在1957年出獄, 1965年搬到英國肯特, 並且成為教師.........

下列這個影迷網站收集了許多相關資料, 有事件的發生經過始末, 人物生平介紹, 真是佩服他們的熱心和毅力............
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裡面有兩篇關於Pauline Parker近況的新聞報導..........

London Daily Mail, Jan. 6, 1997 (p. 17)

A woman who killed her mother in a crime that shocked the world has been living in an English village for more than 30 years.

Pauline Parker was one of two teenage friends sentenced to 5 years in jail for the murder in New Zealand, which was depicted in the 1995 film Heavenly Creatures, starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey.

She is now running a children's riding school at Hoo, near Rochester, Kent, under the name of Hilary Nathan.

In 1954, the then 16year old Parker smashed her mother's head with a brick, helped by 15yr old English girl Juliet Hulme, for trying to break up their friendship.

The court prosecutor called the crime a "coldly, callously-planned murder committed by two highly intelligent and sane but precocious and dirty-minded little girls."

When HC was released here two years ago, Scotland-based crime writer Anne Perry revealed she was Juliet Hulme - and attacked the NZ movie-makers for portraying the girls as lesbians. But the whereabouts of Pauline Parker following her release from prison remained a mystery. No one knew that she too, had moved to the other side of the world in an attempt to forget her past.

Villagers said yesterday that 58yr old Miss Nathan is a reclusive, devout woman who attends a local Roman Catholic church every day without fail. Diminutive and grey-haired, she does not own a tv, radio or oven and is said to live on a diet of sandwiches and currant buns.

Her Abbots Court Riding School boasts ten horses, including an Arab stallion, which are kept in makeshift stables in her tiny backyard and in a field nearby.

A villager said: "She is very eccentric and very much keeps herself to herself. She is very well spoken and appears very intelligent and well educated. But she is quite childish in a way. When she goes to the gymkhanas she takes part in events which children usually compete in, such as the sack race.

"One thing I have always found strange about her is that she will put down a pony without even thinking about it. She rang up the vet asking for a humane killer so she could do the job herself." Before retiring two years ago to run the riding school, Miss Nathan was deputy Headmistress at Abbey Court School for children with special needs in nearby Strood. There too, she was regarded as strange, often turning up for classes in wellies and battered black sunglasses.

A source close to Abbey Court said, "This I know will come as a shock to the whole school. Nobody knew anything about it.

"She was very much a loner but she was well liked and there were never any problems. But I did notice when school photographs were taken she used to hold herself back out of the picture."

Miss Nathan refused to answer questions at her ivy-covered semi-detached home yesterday.

But her sister Wendy, speaking from New Zealand, said, "She has led a good life and is very remorseful for what she's done. She committed the most terrible crime and has spent 40 years repaying it by keeping away from people and doing her own little thing." Wendy, a year older than Pauline, still finds it hard to explain why her sister and Juliet lured Mrs Honora Parker into a Christchurch park and took turns clubbing her to death.

"She has never spoken to me about the details of the way she took our mother's life. Well it was absolutely overboard, wasn't it? The story is: they met, they were ill-fated and they committed a dreadful crime."

There is only one outward clue to Miss Nathan's remorse - her name. In the Bible, Nathan is a prophet sent by God to make David, King of Israel, face up to a crime of murder.

Last night, Anne Perry said she had had no contact with her former friend over the past 40 years. Speaking from her home in Portmahomack, she said, "I'd no idea where she was living. I have not seen or heard from her in all these years. But I hope things go well for Pauline. That is my hope for everyone."

[N.B.: Gymkhanas are a very popular pastime here in England with young girls who have ponies. They are competitions in which horse and rider compete against others to show off their prowess in dressage, show-jumping etc with the aim of winning rosettes or cups. ]

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