Bechdel Test Movie List

There's a short part in one scene where Irene and Cindy (the babysitter) greet each other ("Hi"/"How are you?"/"Fine"). It's the only scene in the movie where two female characters talk to each other at all. It might pass the letter of the test, but I wouldn't say that it passes the spirit of the test.

that conversation only lasts a few moments, I think it fails the third test.

Yeah, I don't even think it passes the letter of the test. "About something besides a man." means a conversation that has a topic that is not a man. "Hi"/"How are you?"/"Fine" is not a conversation about a topic, it is an exchange of pleasantries.

No way does that count as a conversation.

I would also add that the rest of the film paints the only two significant female characters (Irene & Blanche, who never interact with one another) as helpless damsels in distress, to the point that I was uncomfortable and offended just watching their scenes.

The rule doesn't say that they have a conversation, it says that they talk to each other. That's what I mean it passing the letter of the test. Two women, who are named, talk to each other, about something besides a man. They don't have a conversation. In any case, a negative rating (or passing one out of three) would certainly be more representative of the movie as a whole, because if the only part that could possibly count as a pass is a minor part of a scene lasting only seconds, it's not really passing the test.

Dinah, the rule doesn't mention "conversation" indeed, but it says that they should "talk to each other about something" and that something isn't a man. Saying "-Hi -How are you?..." to each other is not talking about something and therefore the film doesn't pass the test.

Considering the fact the very little is said througought the entire movie this may actually count as a conversation, though I must say that I really wasn't aware that that Babysitter's name was known.

I don't think Blanche comes off as any more helpless than anyone else. It's only Ryan Gosling's character who isn't at the mercy of scarier men

The babysitter is also only there to nurse a little male, making his benefit the only purpose of the two talking at all (the existence of another named woman). This non-conversation is having a single subject: a male.

I think the important issue here is that even THIS movie manages to pass the letter of the test, dumping buckets of everlasting shame on all the movies who didn't even manage that. It's important to give this one a pass rating not because it is particularly interested in women but because it shows how low the benchmark really is.

This rating is technically correct, but to be fair, the movie has very little dialogue in general, and also very few characters.