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BackgroundBackgroundThe title comes from the football player
David Beckham and his skill at scoring from free kicks by bending the ball past a wall of
defenders.
This film was written, directed, and produced by Gurinder Chadha, a British film maker who was
grew up in India.
SummarySummaryAn Indian girl, Jess, living in London, loves football and also has a real gift.
The two obstacles: she is a girl and comes from a traditional Indian family.
She has to make a choice between pursuing her dream to become a member of a football team and following the tradition with her Indian family.
Main Characters
Main Characters
Jesminder 'Jess' Bhamra • A Sikh teenager living in Hounslow, west London• Trying to be a “good” girl for her parents but
infatuated with football • Not bothered by her appearance and interested
in ‘typical’ teenage girl activities• Joining the football team without telling her
parents
Juliette "Jules" Paxton • A daughter of an English couple and a local
football team player• Like Jess, shown to be ambitious but against her
mother’s wish • Having a crush on Joe• Suspected that Jess and Jules involved in a
lesbian relationship
Main Characters
Joe• An Irishman• A coach of the Hounslow Harries• Sympathizing with Jess because of having
experienced racism from the English• Falling love with Jess
Tony• A homosexual• Pretending wanting to marry Jess who can
go to America to play football
Jules complements Jess in a Jules complements Jess in a number of waysnumber of ways
both have trouble from their mothers
both want to play football
their names are similar
The Theme
Gender
Homosexual
Tony
Jess and Jules’ suspected ‘lesbian’
relationship
Behavior
Mrs. Bharmra - a gril no
showing her legs in public
Mrs. Paxton - wanting Jules
to be more ‘traditinal’
Contemporary British-Asian Life
Traditional
Not just shown as an
older, but Jess’ sister
Modern
Not just shown as the
young, but Mr. Bharmra
Movie Trailer Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmbObwStSQ
Move Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GyUNk--qCk