... is good at and likes to play football. Her parents don't like her playing football and they don't allow her to play either. Her mother says it isn't right for Indian girls running around showing their bare legs to the world. "Your sister's getting engaged and you're watching this skinhead boy!" This is said by Jess's mother. It tells us that there is conflict between the Indian family and Jess's love of football. In Wondrous Oblivion, when David goes to the Jamaicans house to play cricket in their back garden, his mother got quite upset as the English citizens living in the same street told her to get rid of the black Jamaicans otherwise she would get into trouble with them. Jess and her family are represented as archetypes and the film depicts them as being stereotypes. This gives the audience the feel that the director made Jess and ...

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