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Anyone can cook aloo gobi, but who can bend a ball like beckham? it actually changed the trajectory of my life in a way, and i remember sitting there thinking, my gosh, this movie is for me. it's not a movie where i'm adjacent to the audience. this is intended for me. i had never experienced that before. phone rings. there's too much authenticity here. you can tell that the creators of this film were not outside of a community. yet it's intended for you, but so many other people love it. they do, and i think that's one of the things that i didn't realise. but what i do love about this, and tha...

The football with cultural community life — those things for me was wild to see. i cried, i laughed, and i still do 20 years later. anyone can cook aloo gobi, but who can bend a ball like beckham? it actually changed the trajectory of my life in a way, and i remember sitting there thinking, my gosh, this movie is for me. it's not a movie where i'm adjacent to the audience. this is intended for me. i had never experienced that before. phone rings. there's too much authenticity here. you can tell that the creators of this film were not outside of a community. yet it's intended for you, but so ...

Part of soccer, which means you get to choose -- you can have a different country of birth and country that you currently live in and that is often a fraud choice, which one to choose. and once you choose, you are kind of locked in their. again, that has such a parallel to the immigrant experience. >> absolutely. and i think for a very long time, messi has been trapped in this choice. right? i mean, he is playing for spain, for barcelona, which is a local football club. and then he keeps going back to argentina. and he does not do well with argentina for many, many years. most of his career, a...

And once you choose, you are kind of locked in their. again, that has such a parallel to the immigrant experience. >> absolutely. and i think for a very long time, messi has been trapped in this choice. right? i mean, he is playing for spain, for barcelona, which is a local football club. and then he keeps going back to argentina. and he does not do well with argentina for many, many years. most of his career, actually. but there is no way out. unless he decides he is just not going to play world cups anymore. >> it is so fascinating. during the world cup, of course, america lost one of the be...

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