Olive And Mocha

The Bechdel Test (Popularized by Alison Bechdel‘s comic Dykes to Watch Out For, in a 1985 strip called The Rule.)  is a list of questions about the roles women play in a movie. The test helps to determine whether or not the movie has an adequate amount of female presence in it.

The questions:
1. Are there two or more female characters with names?
2. Do they talk to each other?
3. If they talk to each other, do they talk about something other than a man?

Passing this test does not make a movie a feminist film. Nor does it make a film good, necessarily. But it is an interesting bar to set when films, en masse, try to clear it. What one will find is that most movies… simply can not.

“Olive and Mocha” not only passes this test, it aces the thing.