Good movie, but is it enough to pass the Bechdel Test to be a feminist piece?

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2014)

The movie serves as a drama and a crime mystery while criticizing daytime TV and marital relations in the US.
The movie opens as a drama. The soundtrack and audio cues have the making of a drama. Reasonably bold camera angles are reminiscent of recent popular dramas - akin to Boyhood (2014), if you watched that.
And just as you are about get to bored with the drama, the movie takes a different turn, and begins to unfold as a crime mystery. It still succeeds at retaining the drama quality in all aspects, but the story becomes captivating and interesting. The twists in the story are not heralded with blatant cues, but they are many. You find yourself more and more drawn in as the story keeps hitting you with new twists and dark witty humor.
You could think of it as Insomnia (2002) meets Se7en (1995).
I marked it down for a feminist critique: As my girlfriend pointed out, the movie is based on one female-specific trope. The movie just does not work if you replace the genders of the main characters. It is based on a gender-based stereotype. In fact, the storyline is based on a number of well-founded stereotypes, including those about certain states and regions of the US. Some behavior is so stereotypical that it is just unrealistic.
Still, an entertaining use of your two and a half hours.