rosemary's baby

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2011)

The song at the beginning of the movie evidences that something mysterious will happen, but not frightening. Therefore, I do not agree with the statement that ıt is a horror movie. And also I found the acting a bit lacking for such a scenario. Even though the plot includes many emotions and thoughts, some parts, requiring a bit greater acting, is a kind of failure.
No matter how many faults the movie has, the fiction is still one of the best. If you do not have any information about the film, you can expect a movie depicting a happy family with their baby. And when I started to watch it, I also expected something more normal. But during the movie, the clues help you to figure out what will happen. The house, the old couple, being blind of Guy's colleague, the death of old couples daughter, their friend's (Hutch) death, and then some troubles even a pregnancy may not include These are the clues that help us to find out what will happen.
A statement like "even though it was made in 1968,... " is only an excuse.It is because humankind is always the same humankind. All the people have been sharing the same feelings for ages. So the movie is very successful in portraying anxiety, suspect, duplicity, mercy, and many more. You can be mixed up with your ideas, for example, you can think Rosemary is really getting mad, and she is just making up absurd stories, or you can really be aware of everything and whisper "Rosemary! Hutch is right." or "Poor Hutch, he couldn't tell everything, if so happened, Rosemary would be free now." Yes, the movie urges us to think like that. As I said before, the movie is very successful in depicting, so we can even find ourselves thinking and justifying Rosemary's behavior right. Or we may find ourselves saying that even it is for an unbelievable creature, it is still maternal instinct.