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Born in Paris in 1933, Polish, Jewish, his father was a painter, his grandparents were devout believers, and he experienced the war and massacres of World War II in his childhood. The first key.
He must have cried and prayed like a bird scared by the sound of gunfire, and even asked, "God, where have you been?"
In Feng Xiaogang's "1942", the missionary asked the priest, "Does God know that so many people died of starvation and illness?"
The priest said, "God knows."
"Then why did he stand by?"
"Because the devil is at work."
"God can't fight the devil, why do you still believe in him?"
Then I might as well believe in the devil.
Any work by any director is a reflection of himself, some based on fantasy, some on reality. In "Rosemary's Baby", the confusion, fear, despair, and falling into the abyss that Rosemary encountered are all reflections of Polanski's own mentality.
"God died, and the Virgin Mary gave birth to Satan."
So this movie doesn't need blood plasma, amputated limbs, and doesn't need any surreal ghosts, just this one sentence, it's "big horror".
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Many dreams are implanted like a trap, but the dreams are close to reality. The first half is immersed in middle-class life, new home, lover, family, and longing for new life, which is warm and beautiful.
Then it got more and more wrong. But it's hard for us to tell whether this is prenatal depression, dreams, delusions of persecution, or something real. We're fixed in the heroine's perspective, getting the same information, having the same doubts, and Polanski cleverly strips the audience of God's perspective before he declares that "God is dead."
The ending changed from the previous gentleness, slowly rising and then falling rapidly, and finally stopped abruptly.
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Decorated with a fake smile, the husband walks to his wife's bed, the man who has just dedicated his wife to Satan for conception softly describes to her the good life after throwing himself into the devil, mansions, celebrities, parties in Beverly Hills .
The devil has eroded the way of life of the middle class, turned around and promised high-society drunkards. This may reflect Polanski's confusion.
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The year after the film was released, the cult Manson family broke into Polanski's mansion in Beverly Hills, brutally murdering and dismembering his wife Sharon Tate, who was six months pregnant. Insane cultists dipped in her blood and scribbled insulting slogans on the walls.
Polanski, who was filming in Europe, suffered a nervous breakdown after hearing the bad news. In extreme grief, perhaps he remembered the prayers and questions he had asked many years ago.
In the artillery fire, in the quiet room, on the film, the echoes have been echoed to this day, but no one has responded.
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