The Bechdel Test is anything but a bad thing for films. Realizing that a film does not pass this test is important in understanding filmmaking in 2015. Sadly, the test has not been reworked in the past thirty years, and therein lays an important and complex problem.
What is disappointing about this is that there aren’t any films with females at the helm. We’ve had some great female supporting characters, and there have been recent announcements that new female heavy films will appear in the coming years, but we still don’t have a huge female driven film.
