I watched this with some friends and we all had high expectations I think, since this movie is considered to be a classic from Roman Polanski.
However, maybe I missed some things, but this movie didn't seem to make sense at all. Why would they evil religious group want to go through all this trouble of getting this woman pregnant and fooling her for 9 months, when they can just try to recruit a woman who was willing to join?
And when Rosemary was playing scrabble with the names of historical people who were into which craft from her book, she was able to figure out that Roman Castevet is part of the group because all the letters in his name, were also in the name of a guy out of the book. But that's just so illogical. If you are going to join a religious group, why choose to have a first and last name, where the letters match those of someone before? That just makes you traceable.
Criminals who choose to have aliases do not name themselves with names that have the same letters in as their predecessors, that can be easily figured out on a scrabble board.
And when Rosemary figures out that everyone is involved, she doesn't even go to the police or anything. She is worried she might come off as crazy, but she doesn't even take her drinks she is given to a chemist to find out what's in them. She foolishly flushes all the evidence down the drain, literally, and gets rid of any proof that there is a conspiracy against her.
When she tells Dr. Hill what's going on, Dr. Hill calls the husband and her other Dr. to come down to see her. They threaten to put her into a mental institution if she does not come quietly. But why should she come quietly? If she made a fuss, then got into a mental asylum, they can only hold for a few hours or a day, to determine she is insane. If she gets the police involved, it will be harder for her husband and the others to keep secret. So why not make a fuss?
Also, when they get back to her apartment, and she runs away from her husband and locks herself in the apartment, does she finally call the police? No, she calls her friend, who probably cannot really do much, at that point. Why? Why not call the police?
And when she finally sees that her husband and the group have caused damaged to the baby's eyes on purpose, she decides she is going to take care of it as a mother anyway, and just go along with the whole thing, cause she feels hopeless. Why not show the baby to the police and tell them what happened? Why not file for divorce? I realize divorce was harder at the time the movie was made, but I think if you tell them that your husband causes damage to your newborn's eyes, and says and that he is part of a group that believes the baby to be Satan, that you have a pretty strong case of winning a divorce, compared to usual. And while she's at it, why not get a restraining order too? Even if it sounds absurd, a judge still has to deal with it, and make a decision.
And after telling the police this Rosemary, could have bought a gun, went home and shot her husband and make it look like self defense. She could argue that her husband attacked her once he found out she called the police on him, and when you have already reported that your husband blinded your baby and believes the baby to be Satan, you got a pretty solid case. And by doing that, it makes it harder to hid for the other conspirators in the group, with the police heavily on their case.
I noticed how this movie is based on a book that is written by the same author who wrote The Stepford Wives, but that story makes a lot more sense since it's in a small town community and all the cops in the town are also in on it. By setting Rosemary's Baby in New York City, it's a lot harder to swallow when Rosemary doesn't even go to the police, or the media for that matter. She could go to the media and publicly slam them all for blinding her baby and believing it to be Satan. This could cause the police to be under pressure to investigate even, and would have been a smart move, since she refused to do anything else, before the baby was born.
I know this movie is suppose to be a classic, but the group is not that well explained as to why they would choose her specifically, instead of getting someone who wants to volunteer. Plus why does the group make themselves able to figured out by playing scrabble??? And why is Rosemary such a weak and stupid character? My friend's all agreed and by the end of the movie they feel cheated and pissed off. Even if the police are useless, we all agreed it's at least worth a try, better than nothing, especially when your psycho husband, is trying to break down the door.
Perhaps the reason why this movie is such a hit is because it had a shocking new premise for the time, but there are plot holes and illogical character behavior that really question whether or not the writer's actually respected their audience.
What do you think?
However, maybe I missed some things, but this movie didn't seem to make sense at all. Why would they evil religious group want to go through all this trouble of getting this woman pregnant and fooling her for 9 months, when they can just try to recruit a woman who was willing to join?
And when Rosemary was playing scrabble with the names of historical people who were into which craft from her book, she was able to figure out that Roman Castevet is part of the group because all the letters in his name, were also in the name of a guy out of the book. But that's just so illogical. If you are going to join a religious group, why choose to have a first and last name, where the letters match those of someone before? That just makes you traceable.
Criminals who choose to have aliases do not name themselves with names that have the same letters in as their predecessors, that can be easily figured out on a scrabble board.
And when Rosemary figures out that everyone is involved, she doesn't even go to the police or anything. She is worried she might come off as crazy, but she doesn't even take her drinks she is given to a chemist to find out what's in them. She foolishly flushes all the evidence down the drain, literally, and gets rid of any proof that there is a conspiracy against her.
When she tells Dr. Hill what's going on, Dr. Hill calls the husband and her other Dr. to come down to see her. They threaten to put her into a mental institution if she does not come quietly. But why should she come quietly? If she made a fuss, then got into a mental asylum, they can only hold for a few hours or a day, to determine she is insane. If she gets the police involved, it will be harder for her husband and the others to keep secret. So why not make a fuss?
Also, when they get back to her apartment, and she runs away from her husband and locks herself in the apartment, does she finally call the police? No, she calls her friend, who probably cannot really do much, at that point. Why? Why not call the police?
And when she finally sees that her husband and the group have caused damaged to the baby's eyes on purpose, she decides she is going to take care of it as a mother anyway, and just go along with the whole thing, cause she feels hopeless. Why not show the baby to the police and tell them what happened? Why not file for divorce? I realize divorce was harder at the time the movie was made, but I think if you tell them that your husband causes damage to your newborn's eyes, and says and that he is part of a group that believes the baby to be Satan, that you have a pretty strong case of winning a divorce, compared to usual. And while she's at it, why not get a restraining order too? Even if it sounds absurd, a judge still has to deal with it, and make a decision.
And after telling the police this Rosemary, could have bought a gun, went home and shot her husband and make it look like self defense. She could argue that her husband attacked her once he found out she called the police on him, and when you have already reported that your husband blinded your baby and believes the baby to be Satan, you got a pretty solid case. And by doing that, it makes it harder to hid for the other conspirators in the group, with the police heavily on their case.
I noticed how this movie is based on a book that is written by the same author who wrote The Stepford Wives, but that story makes a lot more sense since it's in a small town community and all the cops in the town are also in on it. By setting Rosemary's Baby in New York City, it's a lot harder to swallow when Rosemary doesn't even go to the police, or the media for that matter. She could go to the media and publicly slam them all for blinding her baby and believing it to be Satan. This could cause the police to be under pressure to investigate even, and would have been a smart move, since she refused to do anything else, before the baby was born.
I know this movie is suppose to be a classic, but the group is not that well explained as to why they would choose her specifically, instead of getting someone who wants to volunteer. Plus why does the group make themselves able to figured out by playing scrabble??? And why is Rosemary such a weak and stupid character? My friend's all agreed and by the end of the movie they feel cheated and pissed off. Even if the police are useless, we all agreed it's at least worth a try, better than nothing, especially when your psycho husband, is trying to break down the door.
Perhaps the reason why this movie is such a hit is because it had a shocking new premise for the time, but there are plot holes and illogical character behavior that really question whether or not the writer's actually respected their audience.
What do you think?
