is your god still alive

Marcel 2022-03-22 09:01:21

Polanski wrote in his memoirs:
"When I reminisce about my own distant past, the lines between the real and the imagined are always so disappointingly blurred and confused. This is the key to my life. Maybe it will take me a lifetime. time to understand. Maybe it's what made me suffer and challenge, feel sad and disappointed. But I see that the door ahead has been opened. If it weren't for it, maybe this door would be closed forever."
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At the end of the movie, Rosemary, who was holding a sharp knife, walked through the dark corridor and saw a surprising scene: a black stroller was placed in the apartment lobby, and a wizard in fancy clothes Chatting and laughing with champagne in hand is like a high society party. Outside such a harmonious and gorgeous picture, what seemed to be heard was no longer a beautiful movement, but Rosemary's scream: They are all witches! However, in an instant, she picked up the baby, her expression became strange and ambiguous, She has completely abandoned God and, like everyone around her, has become a follower of the devil. Such as the philosophical proposition to be revealed by the film: "God is dead!".

The chilling haze in Polanski's life makes his films always full of shadows and a profound interpretation of the darkness of human nature, and his works are always filled with a bone-chilling coldness and silence. The intense pain and indifference to the piercing edge.

The grandmother next door is a devout Christian. She always goes to church regardless of the weather. She always wears high-powered reading glasses to look up the dictionary word by word to read the Bible. However, I inadvertently discovered that she would yell at the scrawny stray dogs at the door, and at the same time warn others not to feed them, and she would also act like a scoundrel to blackmail the tenants who were about to move out. At this point, the respect for her suddenly turned into contempt and disdain, and I also began to wonder what the true beliefs of those believers who were as different as the grandmother were?

In "Supernatural", Castiel asked the Wenchester brothers to go to the paradise garden to find God. He said to the two brothers, don't think of the paradise garden as the only unchanging garden. On the contrary, everyone has an independent paradise garden, so heaven It is like the universe, and everyone's heaven is like the countless stars in the universe, so looking for God is actually looking for it in one's own world.

Human nature is inherently chaotic, but becomes orderly because of moral and social norms. Faith is not so much the worship of gods and the yearning for beauty, but the externalization of human expectations. It is also like a boat, carrying everyone to the other side that he is destined to reach.

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Rosemary's Baby quotes

  • Terry Gionoffrio: The Castevets are the most wonderful people in the world. Bar none. You know, they picked me up off the sidewalk - literally.

    Rosemary Woodhouse: You were sick?

    Terry Gionoffrio: I was starving and on dope and doing a lot of other things. They're childless, though. I'm like the daughter they never had. At first, I thought they wanted me for some kind of sex thing; but, they turned out to be like real grandparents.

  • Guy Woodhouse: If we get friendly with an old couple like that, we'll never get rid of them.