Bend It Like Beckham Gender Analysis

Bend it Like Beckham explores many different gender and cultural roles based around sport. However, like a lot of movies out there, it questions these generalised and stereotyped roles in an obvious underlying manner.
It’s pretty clear to see that this movie is an exaggerated version of what the general society is today but it is different in the way that it questions some of these stereotypes. In society, girls are supposed to look pretty and start a good family but in the movie Jess and Jules both challenge this latter stereotype with Jules not caring about how she looks. However, their parents (except Jules’ father) are obviously used to these stereotypes and therefore do all that they can to stop the girls doing what they want to do.
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