Question of the week: We've asked this before, but it's worth asking again - do you have a favourite London film or tv show? "I think that Bend it Like Beckham is a great London film, even though it has no shots of famous landmarks, no car chases through the crowded city streets, and really stays within a sleepy suburb for most of the duration of the film. But it does highlight how people really live in London, the diversity of even a commuter area, and how people mix and form friendships in the most normal and extraordinary ways.
If you haven't seen the film, it stars Parminder Nagra and Kiera Knightly as two young women who meet playing for the local women's football team. Both of them have rebelled against their families to do so, Jess (Nagra) against what her traditional Sikh family believes women should do, and Jules (Knightly) against her mother's idea of what is feminine. The team goes to Germany to play in the league cup final, both Jess and Jules fall for the same guy, and they are both offered the fairy-tale ending of playing college soccer in the US. But the best part of the film is the relationship between Jess and Jules, between the women and their respective families/cultures, and how they each reconcile what they want with what is expected of them.
It's great, it's a lot of fun, and it's in the library!"- Kris
* Photo by surreykraut, used under Creative Commons, with thanks.
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