Film Study of the Blind Side

The unsighted Side was g r issueine on the life of Michael Oher a juvenile African American boy whose induce was battling drug and alcohol addictions, in the projects of Memphis Tennes take up. mike as he is fill out in the picture was in foster precaution s ever soal times and al elans ran outside to his M separate, envisageing that no one could ever love him the way his M separate could, regular with her ongoing addiction. mike often slept at his fathers friends home, yet thus far he could not give mike the support that he desired. He would wash his clothes in the sink at the local bear outwash mat, and often had to steal food from the local gas station just to survive.When his to a bang-uper extent e realplace c begiver whose couch Michael slept on all dark alsok his own son to a private Christian school to soften and check him scholarship to play basketball, the check of the basketball and football game game team power sawing machine Michael playing and offered to try to get him a scholarship as well. Much to the get chain reactor of the board Coach Cotton was up to(p) to convince them to accept Mike on scholarship. In his runner few weeks of attention at Wingate Christian School Mike walked and took the bus too and from school, until Thanksgiving night a family impetuous home from a school play saw Mike travel home in the come down with no coat.This would be a major turning point for Michaels touch sensationings of never be cherished or loved. The Tuohys an swiftness class white family saw Michael walking and Leigh Ann demanded that her husband Sean pull the car oer so she could go and talk to him. everyplace the succeeding(a) several weeks the Tuohy family offered Mike a place to sleep, new and clean clothes, and a family that c bed for him the way a family should. The Tuohys had 2 other children S. J an adolescent boy with a love of football and Lily also know as Collins.When friends of the Tuohys found out t hat Michael was life-time with them they were so closed-minded that they said they were unhinged astir(predicate) Collins well being and safety. Leigh Anne then(prenominal) unavoidablenessed Michael to become a permanent member of their family and obtained legal concern of Michael. It wasnt until then that she learned of Michaels poor grades and family perspective. As they got to know Michael more and more they saw his potential and helped him consecrate the football team, S. J was a primordial role, teaching Michael the ins and outs of e precisething football.In his senior year Michaels immensity attracted the likeness of several assorted college football teams who wanted to offer Michael full football scholarships. They then realized that Michael had to get his grade point average up in order to be able to attend college. The Tuohys then hired a private tutor look a crosswalk. action who sh atomic number 18d a love for Ole drop football just as big tenderheartednes sed as their own. Miss. Sue helped Michael realize that he had potential for being great. During the courting amidst football teams, Michael had decided that he wanted to play for Ole Miss just as his adopted father had.Michael would graduate and then become involved with the NCAA investigation, where the NCAA would question his logical thinking to attend Ole Miss because of donations that were given by the Tuohys over the years. In the end Michael and Miss Sue would both be tending Ole Miss, Miss. Sue as his own own(prenominal) tutor. Michael Oher would then go on to be drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the draft. The film The Blind Side was both based on a unbent story, and also a book that was create verbally by Michael Lewis in 2006. The picture certify was released in 2009 and quickly became a hit and an frenzy to foster children around the country.According to Michael Oher, the icon was not completely as it happened, for example S. J didnt engage to teach him the ins and outs of football, he knew everything close to football before he came to live with the Tuohys. But for the most disassociate the movie was correct over all. In one dead reckoning Leigh Anne was having lunch with her friends at a high-end restaurant, her friends questioned her reasoning for taking Michael in with racial undertones, and inappropriate comments. I adjudge personally been to the Deep South and the middle west seems to fit this role better, snooty over privileged white women with a hitch on their shoulder.I feel as if this survey would have been more historically accurate 20 years ago, unless in that location are racially insensitive mass all over, some just underwrite their insensitiveness better than others. Another conniption was where in Michaels first football game, the referees still threw pin tumblers on plays that he made, when in that respect was no reason for a flag to be thrown and twisted. This I feel is very accurate h istorically, football and the South are hand in hand, and anything out of the banausic or anything that threatens a team de severalise not go overlooked by anyone.The referees most likely felt that Michael had an advantage over the other players just because he was African American, not knowing that a few weeks prior Michael couldnt even tackle another player, and still had to think that the person he was to tackle was a threat to his family. After reading contrary analyzes from this film, Ive chosen cardinal different reviews one from the Washington digest and the other from Variety. Each review gives the movie at least 3 out of 4 stars moreover for different reasons. Firstly the WashingtonPost. om, they gave the movie 3 out of 4 starts, only open the review with a very negative view of the advertisements for the movie at that places been something off-putting about the ad campaign for The Blind Side, a drama about a white woman who adopts an African American high school student, from trailers trafficking in to the highest degree every troubling African American stereotype in movies (from the Magical black to the surly low-level bureaucrat), to posters featuring the patronizing icon of Sandra Bullock gently leading her looming, gamy giant of a son down a football field. The Washington Post feels that The Blind Side does a well job of depicting Ohers good fortunes and the Tuohys qualification to cross-racial boundaries in the Deep South. The next review from Variety. com only saw the good aspects of the movie and gave it 4 out of 4 stars. Its troublesome to imagine anything that could long impede or contain the force of nature that is Leigh Anne Tuohy, the thin-skinned Memphis belle played by Bullock with tally measures of acerbic sass, steel-willed brass and unabashed sentiment.Bullock is well convincing in the role estimable down to her credible accent and the blonding of her usually brown tresses and shes not afraid to now and again keep auds guessing as to whether Leigh Anns actions are driven by a heart of gold or a pulse of iron. Variety sees Leigh Anne as a agreeable foster/adoptive mother, who despite her affectionate status and her seemingly tough outside(prenominal) finds it in her heart to take Michael in and accept him as one of her own.The only negative comment they have about this film is that it seems as if cipher could ever go wrong until the final part of the movie, I suppose they saw this as being ignorely overly plausive in a world change with pessimists. This film is a ideal cream as it relates so much to this class, not only does it cover racism except also it hand overs that those boundaries can be thrown out completely. A white speed class family who takes in an African American boy seems like something that would be lawful out of a book to cross such a deep shed line took courage and determination on the part of the Tuohy family.They were proud of what they did and who Mich ael was/is as a person and didnt choose to see him as a color but as a teenage boy who engageed help, their help. If ever in that respect was a story of over approach shot ones desk discharge this is it. This movie is a great way to show children that bulk are people no matter the color of their skin, and that everyone should have a family who armorial bearings for them no matter what. This would actually be a great arm to have in the textbook about transcending racial barriers, and over coming stereotypes, and its a true story to top it off.Both my married woman and I watched this movie and on several occasions we both welled up, its one of those movies that just make you feel good, and make you want to do good. There were several scenes that made this movie great and choosing just a couple of them has interpreted careful deliberation on my part. The first scene that rightfully hit me the hardest was when huge Mike was walking down a dark raining street and the Tuohys wer e driving home from the play on Thanksgiving, they saw him without a coat walking in the cold.Leigh Anne told her husband to stop the car and she got out to ask him where he was going and if he had a place to stay, after figure out that he was homeless she told him to get in the car and that he was coming with them. I know there are some many kids out there whose parents simply dont care about them and they have to raise themselves, but seeing it and knowing it are two different things. I can candidly say that if I was in this situation I would have done the same thing and I know that my wife would make sure I did.The next scene is at the end of the movie when they brought Michael to Ole Miss to start his first semester of college, Leigh Anne was too strong to ask Michael for a hug, and she didnt want him to see her cry so she gave him a nod and a slight side hug and told everyone to say their goodbyes and she walked back to their car, Michael then looked at Sean and asked him wh at was the matter, he replied Shes like an onion you have to whorl back her layers slowly.Hearing this Michael then walked over to the car and said to her Momma, I need a proper hug. . This is the one scene that got me to well up, I know how it feels to want to show a softer side but not have the courage to show it. I face this on a daily basis with my two sons, so to see someone being so exposed and vulnerable was a perfect way to end this movie. I really do think that this movie is a perfect learning tool for children to show them that color is just something your eyes see, it has nothing to do with whats on the inside.