Review of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) by Bryanna H — 15 Jan 2010

After watching What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, I come to realize that a camp movie is all about "style": freaky music, sharp contrast between light and darkness, screwball interlude, twisted appearances, ex-pet or rat dinner, creepy inauspicious doll, and Bette's famous husky voice. Sorry, but I never liked Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. In this psychological thriller, not as great as Sunset Boulevard, it is odd for me to feel sympathetic to Baby Jane(played by Davis) rather than Blanche(played by Crawford). To me, the director tried so hard to make a enchanting movie about the aesthetics of ugliness. In such a bizarre modern world, everything is going to collapse. And people eaten off by fame, substance, desire and huge ego, began rotten from inner and a very early childhood.

In most cases, a year went by. A few years went by. People changed. And the world changed. we begin to ask, "what ever happened to us? Now I turned into another ME." No one could give this answer. Time made this up. Maybe the mighty subject of all kinds of art is nothing but time and its guise. It JUST waved, and something must be empty. The bleak landscape must pay for its loss. Time sculptures Bette Davis. Her husky voice sounds like a piece of burnt-out cream cracker.