Bend It Like Becham

Bend it Like Beckham

Soccer is just for man, isn't it? The answer is NO! In modern time like now a days, male and female has an equality; the same opportunity in almost every field in life. This fun- refreshing movie, Bend it Like Beckham, reveals about the power of women now days to express them selves in the same field with men do.

Women are considered as a vulnerable creature in past days. They are just involved in indoor activities, such as washing, cooking, or cleaning up. Their playground is just for playing dolls, dancing, singing, or sewing fabric; all the activities that doesn't related with physical. Men, on the other hand, often related with the "outdoor" hard core activities such as hiking, playing football or soccer, or rafting. Being a teacher is considered as a women's job, being a coach is just men's job. However, things have changed in the past few years. Women started to do the same activities with what men do, and so do men. Being a soccer player, like the main story in this movie, is one of the example.

David Beckham is a British soccer star and the husband of Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice" of the Spice Girls). His trademark is a goal shot that curves across the pitch and into the net. The soccer equivalent of an unhittable curve ball in baseball. "Bend it like Beckham" means making that type of spectacular shot. Apart from that, and a little shrine to him in the main character's bedroom and a faux-cameo at the very end, the movie has nothing to do with him.

Bend It Like Beckam' is a heartwarming charmer about a young girl's search for identity in 21st Century England. `Beckam' deals with the painful struggles tradition-bound cultures must go through as they enter a looser, more freedom-loving modern world. The culture in this case is that of immigrant and first-generation Indians living in Great Britain. As with all such tales, it is the young lady who feel the need to pull away from the conventional values of the past, and who end up dragging her bestfriend kicking and screaming into the future right along with them.

Jess Bharma is a fairly typical teen with dreams of becoming a world-class soccer player. However, Jess also comes from a very traditional India family that believes a girl should not play around with boys, show her legs in public, or aspire too much beyond marrying a good India boy and raising a family. Jess' parents just remind me to a typical conservative Asian's parents- no one wants their daughter to be athletes, especially soccer that is "too-boyish".

Jules Paxton, on the other

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