"how other culture and Jess’s friends change her "

Hello! I come back with my last scene summary, so let’s get starts. My last post is about how other culture and Jess’s friends change her to become and to think differently.

"To become and to think differently"

For example, Jess starts to wear a bit shorter and (kind of see through) dress that can see her body, when she is about to go out with her friends and her coach. This scene shows me that after she starts to meet new people with different cultures, she starts to adapt those cultures and combine them with her Indian culture. Also, the almost the last scene of the movie, Jess can finally change in front of her friends without caring about other girls to see her body. She doesn’t put her arms into her shirt and change from the inside of her shirt anymore. This scene basically shows the audience that different cultures and different people can influence us in anytime.
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'Contrast between younger generation and older generation’s thoughts'

Hello! how is your weekend so far? Mine is really busy with school works.L However, I want to continue with my ‘Bend it like Beckham’ cross-cultural scenes’ summary. After I have been watching the movie for quite a while, I have started to notice the contrast between the younger and older Indian generations’ thoughts in the movie. For example, their inspirations and future careers.

"Inspirations"

 Jess’s inspiration and her parents’ inspiration are totally different. Jess has the photos of Beckham all around her bedroom, while her parents have Sikh guru’s portrait at the living room of their house. And whenever her mother has something to express about something, she usually talks about it in front of Sikh guru’s portrait. This scene shows me that Jess is more influenced by other culture and younger generation than her own culture.

"Future career"

Also, when the soccer university offers her the scholarship, she actually wants to go there, but her parents think different from her. Her parents want Jess to study at the normal university to get a normal career/job because they don’t want their daughter to become a single woman for her whole life. Since, they have believed that if Jess becomes a professional soccer player, no guys will marry her.

I will write my last blog really soon! Stay tunes people ;)

'Friends' issue'

Hello again! I haven’t finished my last blog because I didn’t finish watching the movie in the class, so I want to continue typing this blog! J

“Friends’ issue”

Today, I saw a scene about friends’ issue that can be related to cross-cultural. The scene is taken in the girls’ dressing room. While everyone is changing their clothes in the room, Jess is the only one who felt embarrass and uncomfortable changing her clothes around the girls in her soccer team. She basically puts her arms inside her body and changes everything in there. This scene shows me that Jess has been influencing by her Indian culture much more than other cultures around her like British culture. This scene is the earliest scene before Jess starts to change herself and adapt other cultures that change her life after that.

I have to go now, but I will type about it 2 mores, so stay tune!

'Bend it like Beckham'

Hello everyone! How are you doing? Welcome to my blog J OH-MY-GOSH! I have been watching ‘Bend it like Beckham’ in my English class recently and I find it really interesting about the cross-cultural issues that relate to the main character, Jess, and the other Indian and British characters in the film.

If you haven’t watched the film yet, this film is about a girl, who is fascinated with soccer. Jess Bhamra, the main character of the film, is an Indian teenager and lives in England with her sister and parents. She always plays soccer with her friends at the park and keeps this story as a secret because she doesn’t want her parents to know about it. Since she is an Indian girl, her parents have always been expecting her to become a good Indian teenager girl, who doesn’t usually play soccer or any other sports like men and follows the Indian’s traditional rules. For example, she must know how to cook ‘dhal’, behave properly (like don’t hug and kiss the guy) and marry an Indian guy at the age of 18 or more.

“Parents’ issue” 

There is one scene that her mom just comes back from shopping and unexpectedly walks through the park, where Jess’s boy friend is holding her whole body up in the air. Her mother becomes really angry and takes her home immediately. From this incident, it shows that the Indian traditional culture is so important in her mother’s life that it is inevitable for Jess. Also, her mother’s expectations is to protect her daughter from all the guys and to find a right Indian guy to marry her daughter, so Jess has to behave properly, in order to keep herself away from other guys and to remain unadorned.