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nature is good! It's a white lie.
So that people can forgive those sins beyond measure.
Sighed and said:
Alas! He used to be kind!
Sleeping baby in swaddle!
The poem is really appropriate here, "Rosemary's Baby" is the sleeping baby.
It would be inaccurate to call this book a horror novel, because the novel is full of mysticism, but there is no blood or violence at all. Some are just extreme helplessness about the present and worry about the entire future. In fact, this is a suspense novel, and it is a rare black boutique. Author Ira Raven (1929-2007) was a famous American novelist and playwright. He has published seven novels including "Kiss Before Death", "Rosemary's Baby", "A Perfect Day" and "The Boy from Brazil". The stage play "Death Trap," created in 1978, became the longest-running thriller in Broadway history. Raven has won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, including the 2003 Lifetime Master Award. As Stephen King said: He's the best in mystery fiction, and he makes the rest of us look like third-rate.
Raven's novels have revived the craze of mysticism, and at the same time, he has not taken the usual path, completely subverting the traditional formula of evil. For example, under normal circumstances, young people among a group of people are more likely to become the devil's minions, and the elderly and children are often the victims of bullying by young people. But this book is just the opposite. A young couple is the underdog. They were "persecuted" by a group of polite, extremely warm-hearted and kind old people. They encourage you every day, tell you inspirational stories, take care of you every day, give you delicious snacks and milkshakes, they are like your parents or grandparents. But in the end... in the end, they didn't show their true colors. The kind of gentle evil seems to make people even more angry, because in the face of them, your anger can't even be vented.
That's all for the old man, but what about the baby? In fact, he is the real master!
The novel is controversial in the eyes of readers from all over the world, obsessed with his mysterious and ingenious plot, and at the same time accusing the book of obvious weaknesses. For example, Rosemary was very ignorant throughout her pregnancy, but she became extremely intelligent and full of reasoning ability when she was about to give birth. But this small weakness obviously cannot hide the good. Because when Mary was ignorant, we smart readers couldn't guess the answer either. Another "weakness" of the book is at the end. When it comes to the final moments of life and death for both good and evil, according to the new requirements recently introduced by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, it belongs to the category of clearly indistinguishable between the enemy and the enemy. But this ending is so plausible that it cannot be overturned.
"Rosemary's Baby" also plays a pivotal role in the film and television industry. The film of the same name was shot by the famous director Roman Polanski. According to the book's preface, Polanski was so obsessed with the content of the novel that he visited Raven from time to time. On each visit, he marked several pages in the book and asked the author for some advice, such as: What color dress do you think Rosemary should wear on screen? What day do you think Kay Woodhouse looks like in The New Yorker when he sees the shirt he wants? This made the author a little flattered and didn't know how to respond. It was the director's unusual intellect that made 1968's film immortal. "Variety" commented on "Rosemary's Baby": It has a milestone significance. A classic adaptation of Ira Raven's demonic thriller, it was writer-director Polanski's first U.S. film and was a huge success. It grabs the audience's attention without any gore or violence.
To say that Polanski is really a man haunted by the devil. Avoiding Nazis as a child seems to have given him a unique understanding and obsession with evil and darkness. Later, he made some noir films, showing his extraordinary talent in film noir with strong suspense, suffocating horror atmosphere and strong blood smell. After the success of "Rosemary's Baby", Polanski bought the mansion, but the happiness lasted only a year, and the devil appeared again. His wife and the fetus in his womb were brutally murdered. This event shocked the whole world. Somehow, it also makes "Rosemary's Baby" even more thought-provoking.
What will happen to that sleeping baby in the future? Can good overcome evil? Whether it's a novel or a movie, "Rosemary's Baby" actually leaves a huge space for people to introspect.
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