It was a neat experience to have seen Repulsion & Rosemary’s Baby so many times before watching this one. Those same themes of paranoia & isolation are there, but we’re let into the main character’s mind much more than in Repulsion. There are lots of interesting side characters, & weirdly funny interactions, like in Rosemary’s Baby. This is definitely the funniest of his “apartment trilogy.” Polanski seems to be aware of what we’re expecting after the success of Rosemary & Chinatown, & he subverts that & gives us something much closer to Repulsion. Pretty clever.