I sense a lot of sourness over the test. Way more than appropriate for what it is, and what it’s a metric of. I hate to put it this way, but it’s almost like it disturbs people to imagine women characters with their own storylines. It might even lead to- *gasp* movies that have no important male characters in them at all! Never mind that the reverse is not only common, but the pallid, yawnworthy, and inexcusable norm.
It’s not about deciding, once and for all and beyond all doubt, the entirely subjective and valueless question of: Is this a good movie? It merely helps answer the following question:
Whether among the multitude of people involved in the writing, production, and direction of a film- one person stopped to think about maybe adding a third dimension to female characters.
That’s it. Nothing more. Nothing less. Whether that criteria makes sense for the subject of the film is another completely different question.
