Bend It Like Beckham Essay On Religion
Thesis Essay On Religion
In a 2003 movie called Bend It Like Beckham, the main character is an 18 year old, Indian girl named Jesminder Bhamra, who is born into the Sikh religion and wants to be a top soccer player. Unfortunately, that means she would have to go against the traditional customs of not only her culture but her religion as well. When Jess is giving the opportunity to achieve her goals of playing on a women's soccer team, her sister’s wedding seems to oppose her ultimate goal. Every religion and culture has various views and guidelines that women are expected to follow, and Jess’s is no different. Throughout this movie, Sikhism is well represented by suttlely showing their basic beliefs; how important marriage is and a woman’s role in the religion, however, the …show more content…
For one reason “the Sikh marriage is a very special ceremony in which two individuals are joined in a equal partnership” (sikh.org) and is said it also were two souls join as one. A rather spiritual event, and costly. In the movie the family celebrate Jess’s sisters engagement with a party when the two families come together for the first time. Then later on in the movie, the actual wedding takes place in a big hall with a live band. This a cultural way of stating one's status in life, the more extravagant your parties, and gathering are then the most rice one seems. Another thing that the movie shares with Sikhism tradition is that the bride wears red and the groom arrives to the wedding on horseback. Jess is pressured to get married as well, those who know her suggest that she should marry her old friend Tony because he is an Indian and Sikh. It’s believed that “marriage also brings two families together and Sikhs believe that it is important that the families get on. This is one of the reasons why Sikhs encourage their children to marry other Sikhs”
In a 2003 movie called Bend It Like Beckham, the main character is an 18 year old, Indian girl named Jesminder Bhamra, who is born into the Sikh religion and wants to be a top soccer player. Unfortunately, that means she would have to go against the traditional customs of not only her culture but her religion as well. When Jess is giving the opportunity to achieve her goals of playing on a women's soccer team, her sister’s wedding seems to oppose her ultimate goal. Every religion and culture has various views and guidelines that women are expected to follow, and Jess’s is no different. Throughout this movie, Sikhism is well represented by suttlely showing their basic beliefs; how important marriage is and a woman’s role in the religion, however, the …show more content…
For one reason “the Sikh marriage is a very special ceremony in which two individuals are joined in a equal partnership” (sikh.org) and is said it also were two souls join as one. A rather spiritual event, and costly. In the movie the family celebrate Jess’s sisters engagement with a party when the two families come together for the first time. Then later on in the movie, the actual wedding takes place in a big hall with a live band. This a cultural way of stating one's status in life, the more extravagant your parties, and gathering are then the most rice one seems. Another thing that the movie shares with Sikhism tradition is that the bride wears red and the groom arrives to the wedding on horseback. Jess is pressured to get married as well, those who know her suggest that she should marry her old friend Tony because he is an Indian and Sikh. It’s believed that “marriage also brings two families together and Sikhs believe that it is important that the families get on. This is one of the reasons why Sikhs encourage their children to marry other Sikhs”