Today Ill tell you about the last movie starred by the gorgeous blonde Jayne Mansfield. Released as a postumous movie after the unfortunate death of Mansfield on a car accident.
This movie is recognized by many known critics as the greatest performance ever done by Jayne Mansfield due to the nature of the story which required a high amount of talent to express the scripts sadness of each character.
The movie basically tells us the story of the destruction of a character, which starts from being an innocent dreamy girl named Johnny, that soon changes her name to Mae a waitress who, being about to get married with the man of her life is let down by her prince and every plan she had gets lost in the way of her dream time line.
So, we see Mansfield acting as one leading role divided on three stages of her life and persona. After the dissapointment Mae is no more and now she changes her name to Aileen and decides to go mean and becomes a prostitute.
The plot line tells us about unfortunate people who didn't make it. Every character lives in an old building that represents the sad living they all share. You see some other characters a few times but again, it is Mansfield character the one that leads the way.
Umm it is kinda tough to review this film since I'm not used to watching drama only movies, but I guess the effort is worth the movie, cause we as movie watchers, receive the sadness and constant failure feelings Mansfield delivers on her three stages of her character's life.
Some have stated that this was Mansfield's masterpiece and they're probably right, I felt however, the whole movie acting of every actor involved was a bit of a play rather than a movie cause it feels very overacted on most of the important scenes.
Overall it's just another of thousands of movies which tell you about the road to destruction followed by people who never made it, and probably there are greater movies about this all over the world.
Worth watching? mmm, I would say yes for those into these kind of drama films or Jayne Mansfield fans, not for non familiars to this genre, besides as I stated before the plot line feels very wick on these days where we're used to watch more explicit content about failed lives, but probably in 1968 this was a movie with some controversy I don't know.
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