Bend It Like Beckham Review

The title of the picture show that was instructed to me to write a movie review is bind It Like Beckman,I a genial ethnic sports harlequinade directed by Grinder Chad. Bend It Like Beckman is a British film co-funded with Germany. It was released in the UK in 2002 and in the United States in skirt 2003. It turned out to be wholeness of the surprise hits of 2002, making oer Ell million at the UK box office, while too proving popular with American and European audiences. Beckman is David Beckman, principal of the Manchester United association football am (and the husband of one of the Spice Girls).The observation nobody bends it like Beckman, from which the title derives, app bently refers to his ability to curve the ball past the opposing goalkeeper. The story centers well-nigh eighteen-year-old Jess, a hardworking Indian girl who loves British soccer star David Beckman and Jules, an English girl who befriends Jess after she observes her running circles around a congregation of strapping young men puzzle outing soccer in the park. Jess comes from a very strict Indian family where gender roles are clearly defined. Women are expected to learn to cook and are for their husbands, who are, of course, expected to be the fix breadwinners.This might be fine for Jess older sister Pinky, however Jess has a dramatically disparate vision of her own future, and it doesnt entail settling rarify and cooking the perfect chapatti. More than anything, she postulates to join her idol on the football pitch, but her parents will never accept a football fraud for a daughter. Jess sees herself as a female version of her hero, David Beckman, competing in soccer rather than cooking for an acceptable Indian man as customs duty dictates. So Jess is forced to hide her passion from her loved nest, even her sister Pinky, who is about to be married to her long-term boyfriend Teeth.Jess is then in secret joins Jules competitive womens soccer team which is the Winslow Harrier s and is forced to lead a simulacrum life in order to non disappoint her parents and still play the sport for which she lives and breathes. Sneaking out to practice and traveling with the team to tournaments puts a strain on her home life. She has to lie to justify her absence from home. To amaze matters, she finds herself falling for her soccer coach. Jess is the main character in the film. She tries to be a cracking girl for her early(a) and father but cant help walk Off to play football.While Jess has to lie and sneak around a lot, her ungovernable streak is not aimed to hurt her parents. Jess moon is to play football professionally, at the beginning of the movie it was just a stargaze, but when she was invited on a proper team and started to see herself as a proper player, her dream started to become her goal. Jess has always been very strong and determined in the movie, yet over time she becomes more determined, and even stronger. We see Jess talking to Beckman at the beginning of the movie, and as she grows and tauter, she finds out she can have trust in other people.She finds Jules and Joe who she palpates she can confide in and talk freely to. Jess also gains more confidence as she progresses through the movie, at fritterers would never dream of confronting her parents like she did at the end of the firm. Joe, Jules, Tony and her whole football team deport her in her goals and she gathers up more and more courage and self-esteem. A capital example of her self- esteem gain is when Jess at first does not want to show her scar to the world, she hides it away and will not go onto the line of products in her shorts because everyone will see it.Joe talks to Jess and they bond over their injuries, this makes Jess feel more comfortable with herself and touchableize that she whitethorn not be the only one and when she is on the field, no one will care. By the end of the movie, Jess is able to stand up for herself, share her Opinion and feel confi dent about herself. Bend it like Beckman is and overall a good firm and an excellent movie for everyone to watch although it is lacking in plot of ground and dialogue. It has a warm feel good message of girl ability and breaking traditional barriers but it is predictable in its storyline.One thing that was a great asset to the film was the colorful Punjabi culture and ceremonies. Some may say its just a movie but I know from in-person experience that millions of youth face difficulties in choosing cultures when living amongst two different ones. From this movie, the moral values that Ive learn is firstly, respect. Jess was never disrespectful to her parents. On the other hand, it was her parents who were being disrespectful to her. They didnt look at her for who she was, instead they only axiom who they wanted her to be. The second moral value that learned from this movie is caring.Jesses parents make mistake in their attempts to parent their children, but they also had real pe rsonnel. The strength was their basic and strong love for Jess. The problem was that they didnt look at who Jess had become. They precept her as they wanted her to be. This caused Jess to deceive them but didnt do her any real damage because, before it was too late, they saw what was important to their daughter and changed their position. Had they not done this, Jess would have had to choose between her relationship with her parents and her dream to be a football player. That would have really damage their relationship.