Bend it Like Beckham
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Bend it Like Beckham
Much like professional football player, David Beckham, who uses his unique ability to kick the ball in a way that produces a sort of top spin on it that passes around, above, and through all those who try to block it from reaching its goal, the main character, Jesse Bhamra in the movie Bend it Like Beckham faces the struggles of bending around the cultural tradition's that she as an Indian woman is expected to follow as she breaks those boundaries that keep her from being herself in continuing to pursue her love of football and obtaining her ultimate dream of becoming a professional woman's soccer player. In the movie Bend it Like Beckham, we see how the social constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality are issues forced upon the character's roles in everyday life. Each one of these aspects plays an integral role in understanding the overall theme and plot of the movie beyond one of just entertaining the athletic aspects of those with sports interests. It is obvious that race plays and important role in the movie as we look at the Bhamra Family who is of Indian descent and living in England where the culture is much different from their own. Mr. and Mrs. Bhamra hold on a strong attachment to their very familiar conventions of their Indian culture while living in England. Perhaps it is the feeling of despair or hopelessness that is brought upon by their fear of living among those who are of a different race and follow traditions unlike their own. Raising their children has become difficult as they struggle to control their strict binds to family and traditions while they must also leave them to go about on their own in a world from which they cannot constantly protect them from seeing and experiencing. The Bhamra's want to be accepted by and feel belonging with the other Indian families in their community...