Girl Most Likely

Girl Most Likely

I chose to watch the movie Girl Most Likely for the Bechdel test because I was going to choose Bridesmaids but someone beat me to it! I love Kristin Wiig, so I settled for this gem of a movie that I stumbled upon on Netflix a while back.  The whole premise of the movie is that this girl, Imogene, gets dumped and fired from her job. She calls her ex one afternoon basically saying she's a suicide risk if he doesn't come over. So she props open her front door and goes and lays on her bed with a bottle of pills open next to a suicide note. She took one pill. A friend of hers found her passed out like that and Imogene wakes up in the hospitals psychiatric ward. Due to high density, the doctor called Imogene's mother to come and take her home and watch her for the next 72 hours. Imogene wants nothing to do with that, after all she didn't actually try to commit suicide, she's just crazy over that guy and went to extremely drastic measures to try to manipulate him back into her life. Back in her childhood home in ocean city, Imogene is reunited with her brother Ralph and a new person, a tenant her mother has been renting her old bedroom to. They fall in love, of course, I called it from the beginning. While she struggles with the break up, her mother delivers earth shattering news that her father didn't die when she was a kid, in fact he's alive in New York City and is an accomplished writer, which Imogene is thrilled about because she writes plays, or used to at least. She eventually meets him and is less than impressed. In the end she writes a play, starring Julia Stiles. This movie passes the Bechdel test due to the many female characters in the cast who have names, there's Imogene and Dara, who Imogene helped write the book Dara had published. I don't think I'm the best judge when it comes to deciding if a film is feminist or not because I'm not sure what that means. I did some research however, and I'd say this movie would qualify as feminist because of the way women are portrayed. Imogene isn't sluttin' it up in NYC, and neither are her closest gal pals who are all in the crowd of authors. All of these women are very classy, never trashy. Imogene dresses very conservatively, never revealing.