Review: Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
🍒 The love story of Pat and Tiffany is not clichéd, the dialogue is great, the acting is clear, the characters are quirky and real-ly flawed, but... (sigh) Bechdel Test. You might snort at the mention of the Bechdel Test. It's really less of a test and more of mental note that helps put you in the right, *cough*, feminist, frame of mind. It goes like this: 1. Are there two named female characters? 2. Do they speak to each other? 3. Do they speak to each other about something other than a man. This test establishes whether the action is about the man or about the woman. And it's always about the man. I've got a mere 31 Bechdel-passers on my list so far - http://www.imdb.com/list/Z_tgoKChVPY/ . Feminist role models. I take my role models where I can get them. Tiffany (yes, that's her name) is a 3D-character. She doesn't do the girl-giggling thing. She's slutty and sloppy and dirty and likes that about herself. She can talk dirty. She'll indulge