Changes In Movie Reviews Rating

Hello everybody! I hope you're doing well, given the situation the entire world is in.

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Starting from today, I'm going to change a bit how I rate movies or, I should say, I'm going to add new criteria to it: the Bechdel test.

The test's purpose is to measure and show how women are represented in works of fiction. The mandatory requirements are the following:

1. There must be at least two women (and the names must be known)

2. The women have to talk to each other 

3. The topic of conversation can be about anything except men.

The creator of this test is American American cartoonist Alison Bechdel and it first appeared on a comic strip in 1985. Bechdel credited the idea to her friend Liz Wallace, hence the test is also known as Bechdel-Wallace test.

This test doesn't necessarily mean a movie is (or isn't) a feminist one; it's rather used as "an indicator for the active presence of women in the entire field of film and other fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction. Media industry studies indicate that films that pass the test perform better financially than those that do not." credits to Wikipedia

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I've decided to use this criterion on the movies I'm going to watch from today on and I'll also try to update the movies I've already reviewed, I hope I'll be able to do it by the end of the year. On the movie poster, I'll add the symbol you see at the start of this post to let you know that it 'passed' the test while, if it doesn't, I'm going to write why right under my rating.

I recently watched the documentary 'This Changes Everything', about the unfair gender disparity in Hollywood, where not only actresses are paid less than their male counterparts, but also female directors, assistant directors, writers and such are precluded from big or more interesting projects only because of their gender. 

If you haven't already, I highly encourage you to watch it...it's a mind-opener!!

Thanks to it I decided to put verify how many movies portray women in stereotypes like the 'girlfriend', the 'pretty one' or the 'damsel in distress' so I can have a better comprehension of what and how the movie industry thinks of us.

You might think that I'm a hypocrite: I decide to be more observant on women in movies and then I do the #WWIB posts, putting two o more women in comparison. 

My intent with those posts is to actually show how versatile and stylish women can be by wearing the same piece of clothing. It has never been my intention to hurt those women or to just stop at their appearances...

This is all for today and I look forward to the end of the year to see the results! 

Thank you for reading this and I wish you a nice rest of the week!