BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

This is the British

comedy that we have

seen in class. A funny

film which talks about

Indian culture and the

problems that an Indian

girl has to became a

football player.

Ainara Laparte and Ana Pouymayou

BENDING RULES

In this film we can see that not only boys can

play football. Jess, not only wants to play

football being an Indian girl, she also plays in a

team where the rest of the girls have a different

culture. This detail instead of being an

impediment is a help to going on with her

dream.

SENSIBILITY AND

REBELLIOUSNESS

Jess is an Indian girl with a strict family. She

wants to respect them but also make her dreams

true. It’s a difficult situation and she is very

confuse, even more when she falls in love with

her coatch, who is Irish. It is a combination of

feelings that makes the film interesting.

IS IT A SPORT FILM?

The sport is the reason

which makes the film

special and different

from others. For Jess’

family is the problem

which makes Jess a rebel.

CULTURE AND GENDER

BORDERS

An Indian family which lives in England and

wants to assert their culture to their children, but

Jess, one of their children wants to live like an

English woman, be free, playing football, and

going out with her british friends and her

boyfriend (the coatch), something forbidden

because the team girls can’t go out with the

coatch.

CAN THE FILM BE

CONSIDERED

A SOCIAL PORTRAIL OF

CONTEMPORARY LONDON?

Nowadays in London and in other countries

there is a mixture of cultures because of the

inmigration. This is the reason that causes those

kind of situations.

OUR OPINION ABOUT THE

FILM

Bend it like Beckham is a film with an easy sense

of humor and also talks about teenagers’s reality.

Its a perfect film for people who are in our age

because adolescense is a stage when young

people fight for their dreams, and we identify

with Jess.

JESS AND JOE

Another topic in this film made for teenagers.

Who hasn’t been in love with a forbidden love?

We think that everybody has had a similar

experience like Jess and Joe in adolescence, an

imposible relation because your parents don’t

allow you to be with him or because he doesn’t

love you. Because of that everybody can

understand Jess situation.

IMITATION AND COPY

We can see how Jess admires Beckham and she

wants to be like him. Because of that she wants

to play football like a professional. Nowadays a

lot of young people want to copy their idols in

good and bad ways.

ABOUT THE FILM

Directed by Gurinder Chadha

Starring: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers…

Running time: 112 min.

Country: United Kingdom.

Main Characters: Jess, Jules and Joe.

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