Bend it like Beckham essay (media)

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Bend it like Beckham

Jess wants to be a footballer, one like her idol David Beckham but she has obstacles in her life, the two main obstacles are her mother and father. Her mother wants her to stay home learn to cook ‘aloo gobee’ be a good house wife and her dad wants her to get good grades and go to university! Now she’s met Jules her life has turner around! Watch Jess’s family now have to deal with their football loving daughter and organize a wedding for her sister pinky, at the same time! Now that Jess’s met Jewel’s and joined her local women’s football club her whole life has turned around! Watch this hilarious, heartwarming film ‘Bend it like Beckham’.

Jess and Jewels mothers are both not very different, they both want girls out of their daughters. When they went shopping with their daughters their daughters choose sports bras and the mums were saying to buy the girly ones. Both of the mothers don’t like their daughter playing football thinking it’s for boys or that they shouldn’t show their legs. Getting a boyfriend is also what the mothers want. They want their daughters to have someone or for Ms Bhamra’s daughter Jess she may want a special someone for Jess to get married to like her older sister Pinky.

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        The imagery in the film is used to explore multiculturalism, for example when the old ladies are on their mobile phones at the engagement this shot represents old Indian ladies in the 21st century and are not in the past, they are in the present. The mobile phones are more of an English culture and the ladies are representing the Indian culture, this shows that even though that the ladies are old they carry new technology with them, another image is when the old ladies are jogging in the park in Indian clothes and then Jess and Jewel go jogging past ...

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