Bend It Like Beckham Essay Example

Bend It Like Beckham Essay Example Bend It Like Beckham Paper Bend It Like Beckham Paper Dont be misunderstood by title! Bend it Like Beckham actually has little to do with David Beckham. The main character of the film is an eighteen-year-old Indian girl, Jess who lived in West London. Jess lived in a traditional Sikh family, which her parents expect her to become a top solicitor and marry a nice Indian boy as soon as possible. But Jess herself would rather kick a football with her friends than be dolled up in make-up and clothes. She had a strong passion for football and idolised David Beckham  One day, Jess amazing soccer potential was spotted by Jules, an British young girl who, as Jess did was soccer-mad. Jules then invited Jess to join the Hounslow Harriers, the local girls football team. Jess swiftly agreed without the permission from her parents. Jess and Jules soon became best friends. While Jess kept her playing in the football team a secret from her parents, Jules mother was worried that her tomboy daughter would not be able to score a boyfriend and even thought that she had become a lesbian.  To add insult to injury, Jess sister Pinky was dead set on marrying her boyfriend on the day which clashed with a crucial match for Jess team. Jess was then forced to face with choosing to upset her team or her family. Her choice was soccer. Sneaking out in the middle of her sisters wedding to attend the match. With the splendid performance of Jess and Jules, their team won the match, and was even provided with a scholarship to America to play as a professional footballer while studying in university.  In the end, Jess family finally realised that what Jess really want was playing football, there was point forcing her to do things she did not like. And the best friends went to America to finally fulfil their dreams to become a full time footballer. Unfortunatly she comes from a very strict Indian family who feel that playing football is a waste of time the rest of the story is relatively stereotypical, but the nature of the film means that you dont really notice. The story, using very amusing and differing characters, pokes fun at the Indian lifestyle in comparison to that of the English lifestyle and sexism and sexuality in football, and it does it very, very well. For all you football fans out there, (and I know there is a few of them! ) you will enjoy this film, there are many football related jokes which had me splitting my sides, but dont be discouraged girls his is a real girl-power film which will really make you feel good. Overall it is really hard to say anything bad about this film, the only thing i could really see was the predictable storyline, which weve already seen in East is East, etc. However its a really well-produced British feel-good film, which the public seems to eat up nowadays, (eg. Billy Elliot, Full Monty) and the public should eat up this one, especially as it follows all the hype of the World Cup, and the fact that it is indeed a very good film See it!