I just watched Bend It Like Beckham. I loved it! It was a very cool. I think the movie managed to capture the conflict that many of us face today. I am speaking for the Indian community of course, but I think the situation is similar in other cultures as well. In the movie, the whole contradiction of the Indian society in England is well portrayed. It is difficult to live in a society that is totally alien to you. The natural reaction of people who are in this situation is to cling to the familiar instead of embracing the differences. It alienates them further from those around them and creates tension and mistrust that is difficult to alieviate. The movie really presented the facts like they are. It's difficult to be a part of society if you spend all the time closeted with a certain group of people. The Indian community has been in England for ages now and they still barely get along with the rest of the society. They don't trust the whites and they think they're mistreated and the whites feel the same way.
I mean I know what it's like to be an Indian in a community like that. It's alright to mix around with them but it's not okay to get too close. How can you be somone's friend if you don't look beneath the surface? How can you have an honest relationship if you don't allow your true self to shine through? The problem is, most of them think that they're better then everyone else. That's not the way to make any friendship. Many still carry a grudge from 50 years ago and we all know how well that works. This generation is still being blamed for the mistakes of the last generation and in blaming them we're ensuring that the next generation will never be different.
Just Me.