Slowly, please. Thank you!
Story of a Film
- A film have enjoyed recently is "Bend It like Beckam‟.
- What made me want to see it was the title first of all.
- I was also interested to see what it‟s like for an Indian teenager growing up in
England.
- It was directed by Gurinder Chadha and it stars two young British actresses
Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley.
- The film is set in present-day London.
- The main character is an Indian girl called Jess.
- She comes from a very traditional Indian family, who all want her to learn to cook and get married like her elder sister.
- The problem is that Jess wants to play only football, which her parents won‟t
allow her to do because they say, it is unsuitable sport for a girl.
- Encouraged by her friend Joules- played by Ceria Knightly- she starts playing
for a local girls‟ football beam, but tells her family that she got a part time job in a Shop.
- Eventually her parents find out, of course, and try to stop her.
- Things get really complicated when it turns out that both she and Joules are in
love with Joe (the team‟s young male coach)
- So Jess is forced to choose between her family, her friend and the man she loves.
- However it all ends happily and Jess is allowed to continue with her foot balling
career.
- Although, sometimes the film is a bit slow moving and the dialogue is quite
difficult to understand at times, there are a number of things I liked about this film.
- There is quite a lot of humour in the film and there are some amusing characters especially Joules mom, who is always worrying about her daughter.
- The scenes showing Jess‟s sisters‟ wedding are very warm and colourful.
- The sound track is good too with a mixture of rock and Indian music.
