Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 1. February 27 1978

Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby

Photo of a man and a dog

Polanski's film is much more than just a horror film or a film about witchcraft in a New York apartment block. It is a parallel of the story in the Bible where the father of Rosemary's baby is a divine figure, Rosemary is the chosen vessel, and there is the adoration of the child as the new messiah.

The film treats the myth in such a way that we are forced to accept its literal truth with evion which Christian belief is based We are forced to confront the Christian myth with the realisation that our mode of believing in Christianity is quite different from the one with which we perceive "real" things.

Starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes.

Starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes.