Passes the Bechdel test
Encounter
2021. Directed by Michael Pearce, written by Joe Barton and Michael Pearce.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
4 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 124. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
A Marine Corps veteran suffering from PTSD takes his kids from California to Groom Lake, Nevada. He tells his children that alien parasites have landed on Earth to take over the planet. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
- Released
- 10 Dec 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 5.9 / 10
- Metascore
- 57 / 100
- Awards
- 5 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Malik 283 lines, man
- Jay 144 lines, man
- Hattie 78 lines, woman
- Bobby 63 lines, man
- Shepard 45 lines, man
- Trooper 16 lines, man
- Piya 12 lines, woman
- Grant 11 lines, man
- Dexter 10 lines, man
- Lance 10 lines, man
Full cast, 17 people
- Riz Ahmed as Malik Khan
- Octavia Spencer as Hattie Hayes
- Lucian-River Chauhan as Jay Khan
- Rory Cochrane as Shepard West
- Aditya Geddada as Bobby Khan
- Janina Gavankar as Piya
- Misha Collins as Dylan
- Keith Szarabajka as Grant
- Shane McRae as Lance
- Antonio Jaramillo as Raul
- Brennan Keel Cook as Dwight McKinley
- Bill Dawes as Kurt McKinley
- Alisha Seaton as Mother
- Peter Nikkos as Malik's Doppelgänger
- Stefan Sims as Ernie
- Aarush Mehta as Baby Jay Khan
- Melissa Bailey as Cashier
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 124
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 7 | 2 |
| 4 to 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 7 to 9 | 1 | 11 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 22 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 7 |
| 16 to 18 | 3 | 38 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 20 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 64 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 45 |
| 31 to 33 | 1 | 3 |
| 34 to 36 | 1 | 21 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 13 |
| 40 to 42 | 6 | 20 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 24 |
| 46 to 48 | 10 | 10 |
| 49 to 51 | 19 | 26 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 24 |
| 55 to 57 | 13 | 2 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 4 |
| 61 to 63 | 1 | 24 |
| 64 to 66 | 11 | 17 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 21 |
| 70 to 72 | 8 | 24 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 to 78 | 9 | 15 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 4 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 12 |
| 85 to 87 | 1 | 8 |
| 88 to 90 | 5 | 19 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 18 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 6 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 13 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 6 |
| 106 to 108 | 0 | 12 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 0 |
| 112 to 114 | 0 | 2 |
| 115 to 117 | 0 | 9 |
| 118 to 120 | 0 | 1 |
| 121 to 123 | 8 | 28 |
| 124 to 124 | 0 | 4 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scene
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
ZOE: You made it! HATTIE: Sorry I’m late baby, you winning? ZOE: We’re losing but I got two strikes. HATTIE: Damn girl, look at you.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 15 are women's.
106 lines from women, 600 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
4 women and 11 men in the cast. 4 women and 10 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 5 of 718.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 129 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 17% of the words (1,107), men 83% (5,397). Women have 15% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
3
Two men
54
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 34% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Michael Pearce (man)
- Written by
- Michael Pearce (man), Joe Barton (man)
- Produced by
- Dimitri Doganis (man), Piers Vellacott (man), Derrin Schlesinger (woman)
- Shot by
- Benjamin Kračun (man)
- Edited by
- Maya Maffioli (woman)
- Music by
- Jed Kurzel (man)
- Production design by
- Tim Grimes (man)
- Costumes by
- Emma Potter (woman)
- Cast by
- Avy Kaufman (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
5 women, 5 men, 1 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 6 men, 4 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Art
1 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
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Other crew
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
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Writing
0 women, 2 men
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Camera
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 46 on average. Men: 38 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Janina Gavankar 41, Octavia Spencer 51
Men
Aditya Geddada 9, Lucian-River Chauhan 12, Riz Ahmed 39, Shane McRae 44, Misha Collins 47, Rory Cochrane 49, Keith Szarabajka 69
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 124 scenes and 718 lines of dialogue. How the test works
