Rosemary’s Baby

During 1968, my early college days, amongst many movies, I saw Rosemary’s Baby by a famous director Roman Polanski based on Ira Levin’s novel. The movie had an unforgettable effect on my Mind.

Since 40 years have passed, I may have forgotten the accurate details but still recollect the story broadly.

A young couple moves in to a new house. The husband comes in contact with the neighbors and connives with them to reincarnate the Devil through her. After, that the story unfolds various aspects of changing the body chemistry of the pregnant mother, Neuro-linguistic Programming during her sleep, and the devil’s advocate ensuring that everything goes as per the plan at any cost.

Amongst the other characters, an important role was played by a well wisher neighbor who helps ensure that unwilling mother’s body and Mind transform through a designed chemistry of food intake and mental suggestions.

Great care was taken to prepare the mother for the unexpected result. Movie very effectively portrayed the natural struggle taking place in the Mind of the mother. Anxiety, gut feeling, apprehensions, love etc. and all the aspects covered well of a typical of a pregnant mother caught between the good and bad without her knowledge.

And finally movie ends with birth of the devil baby the mother refuses to accept the baby...

The last shot comes as a punch line “Some humans are born in the form of devil and some devils are born in the form of humans” and the mother reconciles…..

Now after 40 years, I deliberate on this movie and many questions arise in my Mind.

Aren’t we all like Rosemary?

We conceive the bad against our innate desire for good. And having conceived the bad, ensure that it nurtures properly through toxic food for body and mind.

We force acceptance of our ill conceptions on ourselves and ultimately justify the results.

And that is not enough we also force our spectators in to the acceptance of our babies?