She's The Man Film Analysis

Bend it like Beckham and She’s the Man are both movies that are relatively the same to one another. Both of the movies include a girl who is passionate about soccer and can go to any extent in proving to society that girls can play sports just like guys can. But what actually makes these two movies unique? Both of the movies display sexism in the sport for women. The movies challenges traditional views of females and males in society, which leads to assigning each of the gender a specific role that are made specially for them.
Bend it like Beckham shows an Indian girl named Jesminder that is super passionate about soccer but the only thing that stands in her way is her Sikh parents who believe that Indian girls shouldn’t play sports. This movie tries to enlighten the audience about how Indian girls are seen as; just a puppet that is suppose to follow rules. The film outlines the pros and cons of gender role. The idea of this film is basically blending a culture and trying to hold on to traditional views and ideas.
While this movie displays an Indian girl who is suppose to become a “housewife” instead of living out her dream, She’s the Man also displays sexism in the Western lifestyle. Viola, the main character of this film is also in love with playing soccer but her mom disapproves of her passion. When …show more content…
Had it not been for equality in women, females would have it much more difficult in todays times. The basic ideas for both of these movies were to show how sexism still continues to haunt females in minor cases. The ordeals that women have to face just because they’re girls still exist today. It may not be in California, but it sure is being oppressed on a female right now in a different country. Both of the movies did a good job addressing the issue, and I hope people learned from