Comment on "Bend it Like Beckham"

 This film is about a young Indian girl, called Jesminder, who grew up in England. She lives with her parents and sister and has a great passion for football. Therefore, she has some difficulties with her family, because they can´t accept her decision to play football. They ban her from every aspect of football.

As someone interested in a lot of different kinds of sports, especially this one, I like movies about sacrificing for a sport. Whenever Jesminder has time for playing football, she lies to her parents and does it secretly. This movie is about bending of rules, social paradigms and lives. Moreover, it is about a story of a young woman overcoming family pressures and following her dream of playing football, regardless of whether she has to break through some obstacles. The main point of the film is about dealing with conflicts between cultures and generations.

Nevertheless, I don´t like the acting in this movie, the football action scenes are badly implemented (just camera tricks), a few stereotypes exist in this movie and the plot was predictable as well. Moreover, I think a lot of Americans are unlikely to recommend this film, because other sports are more widely followed in America.