Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 4.0
Very dated, beautiful, crisp and well made but not scary
I'm a big fan of RB but on recent viewing had some insights. I think what took a me a long long time to get isa) Rosemary is an idiot, a clueless sheep who would chew a brick if you told her to. A lot of her dialogue is verbatim something that had been said to her, she repeats "he was in Luther and nobody loves an albatross...." the same firggin sentence. 3x. She is lost and does whatever daddy (first Hutch, then Guy, then Dr Abe, then Dr Hill) tells her. I see her decades later a spurned broken bird with a thousand kids bitter about all men...uh, you know.B) Guy is a low life. He sells his wife out in a heartbeat to lunatics. His controlling, angry, "those bitches" demeanor yech.What is seductive about this movie is we expect our heros and leads to be likable and smart and on top of things. In this case they are presented without judgement and seem likable, but on close examination they are this dumb chick and her scummy "good lookin'" hubby.It is quite dated, it's hard to imagine that at that time a "housewife" with no kids pretty much sat around all day, that Rosemary is expected to make guy breakfast while sick, the casual sexism. Like another world.The movie is just beautfiful to look at. The colors, crisp sharp image, that first shot of Minnie and Roman decked out in lime green and pink seersucker against the pitch black city, just awesome.SPOILERIf the coven had such power, why did they need to slip Rosemary the mickey in the mousse? Why the complex plot, if they could blind and kill why not other stuff?