Quote:
Originally Posted by neverending
Rosemary's Baby is one of those movies, like Paranormal Activity, where you have to be able to empathise with the main character in order to understand why it is scary. If you can't share her feelings of betrayal and uncertainty, her complete isolation, not knowing who, if anyone, she can trust, or if she can even trust her own senses, then you won't find this movie scary.
It's not a judgemental statement- it's just a matter of fact- some people are not able to feel ampathy, to put themselves in someone else's world and feel what they feel. Certain movies require this in order to get the full effect.
|
Although I agree that that's true for many people, I'm actually diagnosed as hypersensitive and usually react strongly to the emotions of people around me, so I don't really think that's my own problem with the movie. But for me to feel empathy for a character in a
movie, the character has to be believeable - and whatever happens around them has to be believeable too. If it's not, then it's "just a movie", and it won't trigger any emotions in me at all.
If the mother was a REAL person, and not a character in a movie, obviously I'd feel emapthy for her. Some movies or actors are so good that they kind of make you "forget" that what you're watching isn't real, but that's not the case with Rosemary's Baby - in my opinion.