Bend It Like Beckham Theme Essay

Bend it Like Beckham is a film that focuses on the entangling life of Jess Bambara. Jess is a young indian girl that has a passion toward playing soccer while having to deal with her family’s expectations of being the perfect indian daughter. This creates clashing in Jess’s life causing it to be difficult to balance her family’s beliefs along with her own ambition. In Bend it Like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha uses Jess’s conflict between her desire to play soccer and her family’s cultural expectations to illustrate how cultural beliefs can interfere with one’s desire. When Jess deals with her family’s cultural beliefs, it became difficult to include her passion without creating collision. For example, her family, especially her mother, strongly discourages it when it comes to Jess’s decision about playing soccer. When her mother talks about Jess running outside playing soccer with boys while showing her legs, she states “You bring shame to this family” (Chada). Although Jess is following her heart towards what she desires, her mother has an issue with her doing so because it doesn’t meet the traditional lifestyle of being the perfect …show more content…
When having exposure to a clashing of two worlds, dealing with the problem will construct a settlement. For example, at the end of her sister’s wedding, Jess decides to finally talk to her parents about playing soccer. After listening and understanding, her father declares “I don’t think anyone has the right of stopping her,”(Chada). After Jess pours her feelings out in front of her parents about her love and passion for playing soccer, they were able to understand and listen to what she had to announce. Due to Jess’ emotions, it is clear to see how the colliding of the two worlds brought her to want to express her feelings about the conflict to her parents, allowing them to finally see and understand how she