Beckham
FILM ANALYSIS
MOVIE: BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Bend It Like Beckham. An Indian family in London tries to raise their soccer-playing daughter in a traditional way. Unlike her traditional older sister, Pinky, who is preparing for a lavish Indian wedding and a lifetime of cooking the perfect chapati, Jess dreams of playing soccer professionally, like her hero David Beckham. Wholeheartedly against Jess' unorthodox ambition, her parents eventually reveal that their reservations have more to do with protecting her, than with holding her back. When Jess is forced to make a choice between tradition and her beloved sport, her family must decide whether to let her chase her dream--and a soccer ball--or follow a more orthodox path.
The concepts that I will be examining from this movie are socialization and culture, the family structure, kinship and gender roles, language and culture, and, art and culture. These five major concepts are thoroughly in shown in the movie.
Socialization is seen in this movie through various scenes. For instance in one of the parts in the movie Pinky the older sister of the lead actress in this movie is learning the way of cooking and preparing stuff in the kitchen as this the norms values passed on by their older generation which is exactly being done by her mom and grandparents and her other aunts. This form of passing culture from one generation is called enculturation. Acculturation contact between two cultures and the resulting a change is seen in the final scenes of this movie, they had bent their rules to let her go to America to play soccer and in the end a pregnant Pinky sets a Santa Clara team photograph back on the mantel in her parents' house. As the movie ends, Mr. Bhamra, his new son-in-law, and Joe play cricket in the yard.
In this movie this movie Jess' family is portrayed as a collectivistic family, every person in her are so closely embedded with each other that when ever something is wrong with one person everyone is
MOVIE: BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Bend It Like Beckham. An Indian family in London tries to raise their soccer-playing daughter in a traditional way. Unlike her traditional older sister, Pinky, who is preparing for a lavish Indian wedding and a lifetime of cooking the perfect chapati, Jess dreams of playing soccer professionally, like her hero David Beckham. Wholeheartedly against Jess' unorthodox ambition, her parents eventually reveal that their reservations have more to do with protecting her, than with holding her back. When Jess is forced to make a choice between tradition and her beloved sport, her family must decide whether to let her chase her dream--and a soccer ball--or follow a more orthodox path.
The concepts that I will be examining from this movie are socialization and culture, the family structure, kinship and gender roles, language and culture, and, art and culture. These five major concepts are thoroughly in shown in the movie.
Socialization is seen in this movie through various scenes. For instance in one of the parts in the movie Pinky the older sister of the lead actress in this movie is learning the way of cooking and preparing stuff in the kitchen as this the norms values passed on by their older generation which is exactly being done by her mom and grandparents and her other aunts. This form of passing culture from one generation is called enculturation. Acculturation contact between two cultures and the resulting a change is seen in the final scenes of this movie, they had bent their rules to let her go to America to play soccer and in the end a pregnant Pinky sets a Santa Clara team photograph back on the mantel in her parents' house. As the movie ends, Mr. Bhamra, his new son-in-law, and Joe play cricket in the yard.
In this movie this movie Jess' family is portrayed as a collectivistic family, every person in her are so closely embedded with each other that when ever something is wrong with one person everyone is