Polanski's film with a terrifying atmosphere constantly enhanced by music and plot, loses the usual intuitive visual stimulation of horror films, but still makes the audience think deeply and feel very enjoyable.
Starting with the plot, it can be viewed from a religious perspective. The difference between Satan and God is that God can leave offspring through conception, while Satan must do it in person like a normal human being. In the film, Rosemary and Satan have sex in a trance, using physical 666 is written in blood red and is seen as a number representing Satan. The postures of the two can be seen as the pentagram that appeared in The Da Vinci Code. This is the earliest symbol in the world. Its shape is derived from the orbit of Venus in the air every eight years. Praise for strength and spirit, it also symbolizes cyclical sex, and it is also a symbol of the womb. In this film, the posture should be inverse to the pentagram, that is, inverting the pentagram in this picture is to reverse the human body. Spirit downward, it becomes hell, the symbol of the devil, representing Satan.
If you want to talk about the film's reference to religion, you have to mention something outside the film: the Manson family murders. On August 9, 1969, four members of the Manson family received a secret order from Manson to kill Hollywood arranger Terry Melcher because he refused to help Manson release a record. Unfortunately, a few days ago, Melcher just sold the villa to director Polanski. On the day of the killing, Roman Polanski was filming in Europe, and his wife, Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at home, and the makeup artist were still there. A weekend carnival with two friends turned into a weekend massacre. Because the time was approaching, the saying that "Rosemary's Baby" annoyed the cult Manson family's revenge was actually a sad and unexpected tragedy.
She wanted to scream and die. She should do it, throw it out, and jump with it.
Starting from the role, it can be viewed from the perspective of the impact of the environment on people. As the heroine, Mia Farrow seems to be integrated with Rosemary. Really feel the horror of the environment. In an uncomfortable environment, Polanski is clever to create a gentle and virtuous wife, and Rosemary is also a woman, a mother, she does not work, lives in a closed apartment, and social There are few opportunities for contact. In the apartment, he seems to have a good relationship with the nearest neighbor. In the end, it turns out that it is a scam. In order to achieve success in his career, and for a chance to act, his husband has put his wife and his soul. Betrayed to a cult and dedicated his wife's womb to Satan. In the middle of the film, some of Rosemary's seemingly crazy actions even make people wonder if all cults stem from the anxiety brought about by pregnancy, but she encounters obstacles one after another with doctors and others and can't help but think of the restrictions imposed on individuals by the whole society. Social groups always affect personal choices. As a kind woman, Rosemary hopes to be a good wife and a good mother, but she is constantly deceived by the people around her and betrayed by the society. Insufficient, most regrettable. As depicted in the quote from the book, Rosemary was choked by reality and wanted to speak but was afraid to speak. At the end of the film, what is intriguing is that Rosemary seems to have accepted the reality of her child becoming the son of Satan out of her mother's instinct, and the social environment has successfully changed a person's fate. The camera zooms to the thousands of windows in the entire apartment building. How many people are still going through the same story.
In this film, what is designed is the situation of women in the social environment, but I think it is more a reflection of society and individuals, rather than a simple feminist-related information, but in some specific plots, Rosemary and her husband Kay The status in the family has undergone a seesaw-like change, and the husband has colluded with the cult, which makes people feel that women's independent thoughts are suppressed at this moment.
As a somewhat deviant horror film, it features a variety of elements, and the continuous advancement of the plot will help the audience better adapt to the rhythm of the film.
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