Almost a perfect movie and still terrifying

Rating: 9/10 (2 March 2020)

This film has aged remarkably well. There's not really much to time stamp this in the way, say that Bullit was, which also came out in 1968. The heart of the story is a gradual realization that all is not as it seems. This kind of story transcends the time and place of the setting.
But consider the real life events around this movie. Mia gets into this film rather by accident because Sharon Tate was supposed to play the lead. Mia has an affair with Polanski during it, then gets served a divorce by her husband the singing thug, and finishes the film. She goes to India with the Beatles, Donovan and Beach Boys to meditate, during which John and Paul write thirty songs based on Kabbalah. Inspired in part by Alistar Crowley.
That album ends up being the inspiration to Manson to kill Polanski's wife, mistakenly thinking the house was occupied by someone close to the Beach Boys. Lennon takes up with Yoko directly on returning from India. Her interest in the occult leads her to the Dakota, where they keep their home until John is killed.
Reading what I just typed, doesn't it make it seem the movie got John killed? It ended up being in the peripheral setting of the events of the Manson murders.