Bend It Like Beckham

In Bend It Like Beckham, director Gurinder Chadha uses the character Jess to develop the theme of inner conflict with displaying her inability to live two lives. During the whole movie she struggled to do this because she tired being a “true” Indian that her mother wanted her to be and the soccer player she wanted to be. This did not work because she got caught multiple times which was disobeying her mother’s orders to not play soccer. For example in the scene where she was supposed to be shopping for shoes for her sister's wedding. She ended up buying soccer cleats and only one pair of dress shoes. But her mother told her to buy two pairs. Anyways when she came home her mother wanted to see the shoes so Jess showed her and not realizing
That's it! No more football!” her mother stated. But Jess still disobeyed her and pretended that she quit playing soccer but she secretly was. Her mother was afraid that it was going to bring shame to the family for not being a traditional Indian women in her eyes. This is because she said “What family will want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking football all day but can't make round chapattis”. Also Jess lied and said she had a job but she was secretly speaking off to go to soccer practice. This resulted in the wedding almost getting called off because Pinkeys mother in law drove by when she saw Jess hanging out with Jules who looked like a white guy which is unacceptable to be with someone who is not Indian. “Happy now? - My whole wedding's been called off 'cause of you!” Pinky screamed at her as Jess was in confusion because she did not do anything of that. So Jess asked what she was talking about and her mother responded with “They saw you being filthy with an English boy!” As you could her the disappointment in her voice. Jess later was able to explain that it was Jules and thankfully the wedding was called back on. But before that Pinkey was so angry at Jess that she snitched “She ain't got