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Sinead. 24. Long Beach, NY.
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June 20, 2012

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What is frightening about Rosemary’s condition is her suspicion that she is being used by other people for ulterior purposes. She has no family of her own to turn to, but must rely on a husband who seems insensitive to her pain, neighbors who seem suspiciously solicitous, a doctor whose manner seems more reassuring than his medicine, and a world that seems curiously indifferent to her plight. When she tells her story to a disinterested doctor, he dismisses it as pure paranoia as most doctors would if a pregnant woman walked into their office and told them the plot of “Rosemary’s Baby.” The disinterested doctor calls the witch doctor and Rosemary is delivered to her satanic destiny. After spitting in her husband’s face, Rosemary approaches the rocker where her yellow-eyed baby is crying and by slowly rocking the infant to sleep acknowledges her maternal responsibility toward a being that is after all a baby and ultimately HER baby.

Thus two universal fears run through “Rosemary’s Baby,” the fear of pregnancy, particularly as it consumes personality, and the fear of a deformed offspring with all the attendant moral and emotional complications.
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Andrew Sarris reviews ROSEMARY’S BABY.

July 25, 1968

The Village Voice has collected some choice bits of writing from enormously influential film critic Andrew Sarris, whose death at the age of 83 was made public earlier today. their piece provides a nice little buffet of Sarris’ contributions to the world of film, but anyone who wants to really have their mind blown owes it to themselves to buy Sarris’ most pivotal collection, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968.

FWIW, Criterion will *probably* release Rosemary’s Baby on dvd / blu-ray in October.

(via bbook)

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