Rosemary's Baby final scene is appropriate and truthful

Rating: Null/10 (17 August 2003)

I'm a Polanski fan and I'had read some reviews"complaining on Rosemary's Baby final scene(as in CHINATOWN some people think that 'the ending' is wrong,I just can believe!) I just want to tell them this:
The best part of the film is the final scene or' the climax scene',why? Well, as you know it RB is a mix of Psychological and supernatural subjects But more important,RB is a GOTHIC film from a Gothic minded absurdist:ROMAN POLANSKI Ok, you are,I guess, aware of all of this ,the final scene is part of a polanskian universe-his filmography and the characters of his earlier films from the sixties came from this `universe'-- according to which the probability of the facts leans in a particular logic of the characters. In his pre-.RB film, CUL DE SAC(1965),POLANSKI present us a particular scene:
We see a car beached in a coast starts to be invaded by the water, even in this situation, the man does not leave his car facing the risk of suffocating, perhaps he thinks that nothing bad can happen to him or not to conceive the possibility on the matter of doing something without the aid of his companion who, being kilometers away of the place, obvious cannot listen to his cry for help .or another scene the couple that lives in the taken castle accepts the interference of the new guest as something inexorable that simply must be assimilated. With the code maintained in the absurd one, Polanski installs the possibility of any situation that, NO MATTER its degree of absurdity, will not be questioned by the protagonists. This attitude is use in an inverse way in Rosemary's baby(1968)at first she fights against the adversities that alter her normal course of her life.(contrary to Cul de sac character,she even seeks help to her former doctor But ,he,of course,doesn't believe her'story').
Remember her as a Gothic heroine,To me ,'the crib scene' got to do with that inexorable acceptance I've mentioned you before(the absurdistic VIEW) and about her strong motherhood instinct almost obsessive even if the child she nurtures would be the son of the devil(supernatural)
To show this at the end is not a treason because we already got `hints'of witchcraft in earlier scenes,Remember the absurd theory? Of course the `paranoia' mentioned is interesting for the plot,To me it's difficult to believe that people didn't knew(back in the sixties) that at the end her suspected paranoia is not precisely a `paranoia'
In the absurdistic gothic world nothing is safe or logical or `realistic' even if it looks like For that reason Rosemary's Baby final scene is appropriate and truthful to this particular universe. The pessimism just fits very well too because in all of Polanski films the protagonist's isolation is one of their characteristic.As TERRENCE RAFFERTY said : Rosemary's Baby" seems less a lurid shocker than a kind of boldly stylized existential fable: Hell really is other people, especially when they are people determined to impose themselves on weaker creatures. Poor Rosemary is like a sick lamb separated from her flock by a pack of ravening wolves.'
Is John Huston's character in CHINATOWN one of those old wolves too?
(`Hire myself to whom? What beasts adore? What sacred images destroy? What hearts shall I break? What lie maintain? Through what blood wade?')