I remember the first time I saw this movie poster on the side of a bus. For a moment, my hopes soared so high. Girls in sports clothes! Girls with their arms around each other! Could it be... a lesbian romance? And one of the girls in particular seemed to be cute (a certain Miss Keira Knightley... I hear she went on to do rather well).
Alas, it was not to be... although apparently it would have been, if director Gurinder Chadha hadn't got cold feet at the last moment. But traces of the original architecture of the movie, where Jess and Jules did fall in love, can be seen in the finished product: the moment when Jules first spots Jess in the park, for example, or the moment when one of Jess's relatives glimpses her and the short-haired Jules together, and thinks that they are a couple.
As it is, we have to take the movie for what it is: a heterosexual romance with just a dash of hoyay. But at least it does end with the girls walking off into the sunset... er, football scholarship... with each other.
