He first starts to follow her from her high-rise apartment building on Nob Hill to a flower shop [a significant location and motif] on Grant Avenue through a narrow back alley and back door, where she buys a red and white nosegay bouquet as he voyeuristically peers at her with an ingenious split-screen effect.The main title credits began to play - under the title screen was one of the film""s major motifs - a view of a broken-faced Baby Jane doll lying on the pavement under he passenger-side running board.He gave a dim-witted reaction to his first win - with a flustered and incomprehensible answer: "It feels out there.Although heavily praised and lauded, he film was also criticized for being over-rated.Plot SynopsisPrologue:In the film""s misleading prologue (it was an excerpt of a scene repeated later), the shutter of a camera whirred on.