Feminist film criticism has been traditionally dominated by Freudian and Lacanian analyses both of women on screen and of female spectatorship. This chapter aims to produce framework for discussing representation of female characters on screen in general, and narrative path of female protagonists in particular. It argues that Jungian feminism is able to offer a true insight into issues encountered by female characters in contemporary screen narratives. The woman was gradually becoming ‘an individual’, expected to have her own journey. Laura Mulvey’s analysis of traditional Hollywood approach to depicting females on screen, although out of date, is still influential in feminist film criticism. Lack, loss and castration, film feminists have argued, are at the base of both the production and consumption processes of the film industry. A product of modernity, cinema was nevertheless very slow in recognizing a woman as an individual separate from a man, as someone who deserves to be the hero of her own story.