Passes the Bechdel test

Mirrors

Name: Mirrors
Released: 2008

2008. Directed by Alexandre Aja, written by Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur and Kim Sung-ho.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
11 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 119.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

In New York, former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watchperson of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became an alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he lives in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed with the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that an evil force in the mirror is chasing him and jeopardizing his family.

Released: 15 Aug 2008
Genres: Horror, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.1 / 10
Metascore: 35 / 100
Awards: 2 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Ben 185 lines, man
Amy 113 lines, woman
Larry 37 lines, man
Lorenzo 25 lines, man
Michael 24 lines, man
Angela 23 lines, woman
Daisy 21 lines, woman
Mrs. Lewis 14 lines, woman
Dr. Morris 13 lines, man
Robert 12 lines, man

Full cast, 30 people

Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson
Paula Patton as Amy Carson
Amy Smart as Angela Carson
Jason Flemyng as Larry Byrne
Cameron Boyce as Michael Carson
Arika Gluck as Daisy Carson
Ioana Abur as Front Desk Sister
Mary Beth Peil as Anna Esseker
John Shrapnel as Lorenzo Sapelli
Tim Ahern as Dr. Morris
Julian Glover as Robert Esseker
Josh Cole as Gary Lewis
Ezra Buzzington as Terrence Berry
Aida Doina as Rosa
Darren Kent as Jimmy Esseker
Roz McCutcheon as Jimmy's Mother
Adina Rapiteanu as Young Anna
William Meredith as Young Doctor
Bart Sidles as Police Inspector
Cai Man as Neighbor
Jingdong Qin as Neighbor
Anca Damacus as Burning Woman
Tudor Stroescu as Delivery Man
Liliana Donici as Mirror Person
Aurelia Radulescu as Mirror Person
George Dumitrescu as Mirror Person
Irina Săulescu as Mirror Person
Valeriu Pavel as Mirror Person
Greg Nicotero as Guy Playing Pool (uncredited)
Peter Sebastian Wrobel as Student (uncredited)

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 119

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	2
4 to 6	6	3
7 to 9	0	26
10 to 12	1	1
13 to 15	0	21
16 to 18	0	13
19 to 21	5	10
22 to 24	13	19
25 to 27	0	2
28 to 30	6	4
31 to 33	0	10
34 to 36	5	7
37 to 39	16	22
40 to 42	14	14
43 to 45	7	6
46 to 48	7	11
49 to 51	11	12
52 to 54	0	6
55 to 57	18	11
58 to 60	2	20
61 to 63	10	6
64 to 66	0	25
67 to 69	2	3
70 to 72	4	5
73 to 75	4	8
76 to 78	0	0
79 to 81	3	26
82 to 84	6	4
85 to 87	10	12
88 to 90	9	4
91 to 93	5	3
94 to 96	13	0
97 to 99	10	1
100 to 102	3	5
103 to 105	3	0
106 to 108	5	1
109 to 111	0	0
112 to 114	2	0
115 to 117	0	0
118 to 119	0	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

DAISY: Duh, open it stupid! AMY: Hi Rosa... Where are the kids?

AMY: It was just a nightmare. It's late, you have to go back to sleep. I'll turn on the night-light, if you want. DAISY: Mom, can you leave the door open? AMY: Sure sweetheart... OK, you two go to sleep now.

DAISY: It is over, Mom? AMY: Yes sweetheart, it's over...

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 38 are women's.

200 lines from women, 323 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

11 women and 16 men in the cast. 6 women and 13 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 534. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 37 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 36% of the words (2,400), men 64% (4,324). Women have 38% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

5 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Alexandre Aja (man)
Written by: Grégory Levasseur (man), Alexandre Aja (man)
Produced by: Grégory Levasseur (man), Alexandra Milchan (woman), Vlad Păunescu (man), Marc Sternberg (man)
Shot by: Maxime Alexandre (man)
Edited by: Baxter (gender not listed)
Music by: Javier Navarrete (man)
Production design by: Joseph C. Nemec III (man)
Costumes by: Michael Dennison (man), Ellen Mirojnick (woman)
Cast by: Tricia Wood (woman), Deborah Aquila (woman), Jennifer L. Smith (woman)