Film Study of the Blind Side

The concealment Side was based on the life of Michael Oher a teenage Afri tummy American son whose m early(a) was battling drug and intoxicant addictions, in the projects of Memphis Tennessee. Mike as he is lie with in the photographic film was in foster railway c atomic number 18 some(prenominal) times and always ran off to his origin, thinking that no wizard could ever love him the way his Mother could, take d protest with her ongoing addiction. Mike often slept at his fathers friends home, but even he could not give Mike the support that he desired. He would wash his clothes in the sink at the local wash mat, and often had to steal food from the local gas station unspoilt to survive.When his single caregiver whose couch Michael slept on every wickedness took his own son to a private Christian school to try and get off him scholarship to play basketball, the coach of the basketball and football team mottoing machine Michael playing and offered to try to get him a sc holarship as well. such(prenominal) to the dismay of the board Coach Cotton was able to convince them to presume Mike on scholarship. In his kickoff few weeks of attendance at Wingate Christian School Mike walked and took the bus too and from school, until Thanksgiving night a family driving home from a school play apothegm Mike move home in the rain with no coat.This would be a major turning point for Michaels feelings of never macrocosm cherished or loved. The Tuohys an upper anatomy white family saw Michael walking and Leigh Ann demanded that her husband Sean pull the car over so she could go and tattle to him. Over the next several weeks the Tuohy family offered Mike a rest home to sleep, revolutionary and clean clothes, and a family that cared 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 tabu(p) that Michael was living with them they wer e so closed-minded that they give tongue to they were worried about Collins well being and safety. Leigh Anne consequently cherished Michael to become a permanent member of their family and obtained legal guardianship of Michael. It wasnt until then that she learned of Michaels poor grades and family situation. As they got to know Michael to a greater extent and more they saw his voltage and helped him make the football team, S. J was a key aim, teaching Michael the ins and outs of everything football.In his senior year Michaels greatness attracted the likeness of several different college football teams who necessityed to offer Michael full football scholarships. They then realized that Michael had to get his GPA up in order to be able to attend college. The Tuohys then hired a private charabanc miss. treat who shared a love for Ole Miss football entirely as big as their own. Miss. Sue helped Michael realize that he had potential for being great. During the courting betw een football teams, Michael had decided that he requireed to play for Ole Miss just as his adopted father had.Michael would alumnus and then become involved with the NCAA investigation, where the NCAA would question his reasoning 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 attending Ole Miss, Miss. Sue as his own individualized 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 true story, and also a book that was written by Michael Lewis in 2006. The mental picture was released in 2009 and quickly became a hit and an ingestion to foster children around the country.According to Michael Oher, the movie was not completely as it happened, for manakin S. J didnt fork over to teach him the ins and outs of football, he knew everything about football before he came to live with the Tuohys. But for the most(prenominal) part the movie was veracious over all. In one scene 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 have personally been to the Deep south-central and the Midwest seems to fit this role bettor, snooty over privileged white women with a chip on their shoulder.I feel as if this scene would have been more historically accurate 20 years ago, but there are racially unresponsive mess all over, some just hide their insensitiveness better than others. Another scene was where in Michaels first football game, the referees just threw swags on plays that he made, when there was no reason for a flag to be thrown. This I feel is very accurate historically, football and the South are hand in hand, and anything out of the ordinary or anything that threatens a team will not go overlooked by anyone.The referees most likely felt that Mich ael had an advantage over the other players just because he was African American, not wise(p) 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 different reviews from this film, Ive chosen two different reviews one from the capital letter Post and the other from Variety. Each review gives the movie at least 3 out of 4 stars but for different reasons. Firstly the WashingtonPost. om, they gave the movie 3 out of 4 starts, but open the review with a very blackball view of the advertisements for the movie in that respects 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 nearly every impress African American stereotype in movies (from the Magical Negro to the gruff low-level bureaucrat), to posters featuring the patronizing image of Sandra Bu llock gently leading her looming, drear giant of a son ingest a football field. The Washington Post feels that The Blind Side does a good job of portrayal Ohers good fortunes and the Tuohys ability 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 demanding to imagine anything that could long impede or contain the force of record that is Leigh Anne Tuohy, the feisty Memphis belle played by Bullock with equal measures of acerbic sass, steel-willed buttock and unabashed sentiment.Bullock is thoroughly convincing in the role &8212 right down to her credible accent and the blonding of her normally brown tresses &8212 and shes not afraid to once in a while keep auds guessing as to whether Leigh Anns actions are driven by a heart of gold or a whim of iron. Variety sees Leigh Anne as a loving foster/adoptive mother, who despite her social locating and her seemingly tough exterior 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 nothing could ever go faulty until the final part of the movie, I suppose they saw this as being slimly overly optimistic in a world fill with pessimists. This film is a perfect choice as it relates so a lot to this class, not only does it cover racism but also it shows that those boundaries can be thrown out completely. A white upper class family who takes in an African American boy seems like something that would be keen out of a book to cross such a unintelligible seeded line took braveness and determination on the part of the Tuohy family.They were high of what they did and who Michael was/is as a person and didnt choose to see him as a color but as a teenage boy who needed help, their help. If ever there was a story of over glide path ones background this is it. This movie is a great way to show children that people are peo ple no matter the color of their skin, and that everyone should have a family who cares for them no matter what. This would actually be a great department to have in the textbook about transcending racial barriers, and over glide slope stereotypes, and its a true story to top it off.Both my wife 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 compeer of them has taken careful deliberation on my part. The first scene that authentically hit me the hardest was when Big Mike was walking down a apart(p) raining street and the Tuohys were 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 figuring 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 honestly adduce that if I was in this situation I would have done the aforementioned(prenominal) 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 what was the matter, he replied Shes like an onion you have to peal back her layers late.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 al-Qaida with my two sons, so to see someone being so loose and vulnerable was a perfect way to end this movie. I rightfully do think that this movie is a perfect learning mechanism for children to show them that color is just something your eyes see, it has nothing to do with whats on the inside.