my scalp still smart from the burning coal heap on it when i vow i love this film . bring on the coal while i will walk over them as well to say again that i love bend it like beckham . grant and there a lot of in spite of in that confession . it a bit movie of the week while the screenplay be on the paint by number side . and and most troublingly and the director commentary implies that in this film beauty can be find primarily amongst the white of skin . the film genius be not in what obvious to the syd field doctor eye represent character arc and theme and construction . it in both the surface and what lurk deep beneath and but not in those layer of artistic topsoil that reviewer seem most often to scratch at . powerful and sometimes semi clad female body not simply on display but kick the crap out of a football do a good job of naturalize female strength and agility than lara croft or zhang ziyi will ever do . these be real body ( keira knightley except ) whose work be not to look great first and kick butt later . they be work body whose beauty be in their movement and self determination . and and in my book and lead actress parminder nagra be one of the most gorgeous creature ever capture on screen not only because she can lay claim to that hackneyed adjective and luminous and but because her performance have an honesty and un bookish intelligence that utterly compel . the result be a film woman can enjoy without feel like theyre make a pact with the devil to do so . a in chadha bride and prejudice and the relationship amongst woman sizzle with a chemistry that can not be neatly slot into the stodgy and sweet valley high category of best friend or sister . perhaps chadha be even right in her commentary to disavow the film flirtation with lesbianism . bend it like beckham have an electricity that can not be reduce to the simple hetero or homosexual love triangle it conventionally structure script would suggest . the precise nature of it pleasure be and ultimately and a bit of a mystery and be all the more seductive for it . oh yes and and do i mention that it hilarious .