Bend It Like Beckham Analysis

Bend it like Beckham is about football, race, gender, and culture. The sport has different definitions – it can be a voluntary participation (fun), intrinsic reward important, physical skill and exertion. As discussed in the first lecture, sport provides a pleasurable experience to so many people. Sport can be a source of tension but at the same time, it brings people together from different cultures, ethnicities and countries. It is an inspiration to many people in our society today. I will be focusing on the film "bend it like Beckham" (2002) and discussing the issues, settings and themes of the film; and at the same time connecting it to the lecture. In the film "Bend it like Beckham" (2002), directed by Gurinder Chadha, it covers a lot of things we talked about in …show more content…
In the scenes where she was playing for fun with her friend Tony and his friends in the park, her mother telling her what is right for a girl and when Tony and his friends came to watch Jess play, the director uses sexism to show gender stereotyping and misunderstanding. it is repeated throughout the film, mainly by the male character that girls should not play football but should be looking after the home. What this shows us about the theme is that it is believed that sports are mostly for the men. The director's intention through this was to help us to understand that inequality for females still exists but not as much as before, seeing that females can now participate in some male field works. But still they get less attention, an example is how the coach's father wants him to coach the men's football team and not the women. There is a scene where the coach talks about how he tries to perform hyper-masculinity by playing sport and showing strength just to impress his