Since its birth, "Rosemary's Baby" has been viewed as a classic religious horror film. But in my opinion, in addition to religious significance, this movie has a strong duality in the setting of the relationship between the characters in the movie, so that it is not only religious, but also a reflection of our daily lives. A family ethics film about the miserable lives of ordinary housewives.
In the superficial relationship of this movie, Rosemary has an honest-looking and caring husband, but he is actually a waste man who can completely sell his wife for personal gain and work with others to fool his wife in every possible way; rosemary The two closest neighbors are a pair of elderly couples who seem to be friendly and hospitable on the surface, but actually use rosemary as a good prey to snatch Rosemary’s womb to give birth to Satan’s son, and this old couple has a deep heart. The couple even brought a group of elderly people who seem to be caring about Rosemary, but in fact monitor and control Rosemary around the clock.
In the context of the religious relationship narrated on the surface of the film, these people are entrenched around Rosemary because of the same religion. All of them were stunned, and only rosemary, which was getting weaker and weaker, was kept in the dark, so that the last child born was taken away by birth.
However, if you jump out of the religious background, all the characters’ motives and relationships in this film can match daily life. The scheming couple next door is like the most common scheming in-laws in family dramas; don’t ask yourself. The group of elderly cult members who came here are also clearly similar to many annoying aunts and uncles in life.
If you re-organize the plot of the film with such a relationship between characters, it is that a weak and incompetent husband, under the design of an autocratic and domineering in-laws, and a group of contemplative seven aunts and eight uncles, together calculated a stupid and weak partner. Woman's belly.
Personally, I feel that the horror index of this film is far more horrible than the interpretation in the context of religion when the story background is placed in the context of ordinary life, because such stories are almost commonplace in our daily lives. .
Whether it is in various family ethics dramas or various legal programs, stories like rosemary are everywhere after being cheated by their in-laws to give birth to a baby. Different times, different regions, and different people, but they all have such similar story development patterns. Among the women, there are reasons to fight, some crying and grabbing the ground, and some are numb and dismissive.
Personally, I feel that compared to using a religious background to set off the terror, placing it in a realistic background may make people feel colder.
In addition to a supporting role that is too realistic and representative, the heroine rosemary herself is also very universally representative. A woman like Rosemary who is not deeply involved in the world, has no scheming, and wholeheartedly loves and believes in her husband, is also common in reality. If you have to meet a beloved person, it is naturally a love of a concubine, but there is also a high probability that you will encounter a person who is not good enough, and the entrusted person is not human, so it is common to be fooled by the husband's family like Rosemary.
In the process of watching this film, countless images of housewives emerged in my mind. Because of their marriage and pregnancy, they gradually broke off their social and contact with other people. Surrounded and isolated from the outside world with their children, they gradually lost the initiative in life, lost in the four walls that they had cast, and eventually lost themselves.
When I saw this movie a few decades later, I was surprised that the director Polanski accurately captured the survival experience of contemporary married women decades ago. There is no horror shot in the whole film. The daily life scenes are more profound and bloody than any family ethics drama that I currently broadcast.
Of course, under the religious atmosphere of foreign countries, the understanding of the film is more toward its religious background, not to mention the subsequent human tragedies of the Polanski family who were bloodbathed by cultists, which added a lot of possibilities to the film. The angle for interpretation. But as we grew up in a secular country, what rosemary's baby gave me more was the deep sympathy for some married and child-bearing women.
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