- Every single person in the movie spellbound wants to win the spelling bee for different reasons. Winning is specially important for Neil. This is because according to spellbound he has been studying the hardest and he also has a lot of pressure from his parents.For him winning is practically an obligation. Indian culture demands excellence in everything in life this means that Neil must feel pressure to win the national spelling bee because he thinks that if he doesn't he will bring shame to his family. As I could tell from the film his family is native of the Indian region of Goa, which is the only christian region in India, this region is also known to be the one with best education in India. These cultural backgrounds must fill Neil with fear of losing because if he loses he will feel that he let down his family and his country. Also Neil has studied really hard and if he loses he will feel that he wasted a lot of effort.
- After watching some scenes of spellbound I concluded that spelling bees are not necessary. I got to this conclusion because it is pointless that people put so much pressure in kids for something so ridiculous as spelling. It would be the same as if they did a similar nation wide contest on basic arithmetic skills. Spelling is something basic in life there should be no spelling bee because there is simply nothing extraordinary about spelling. It would be like a nation wide contest of babies learning to walk, it is simply something a normal person needs to know for life. Spelling bees are also ridiculous because they put too much pressure on their kids. The pressure these kids feel is almost as if their lives depended on them winning.
