The Blind Side: A Film That Shows Love Is Blind
It’s an amazing movie that embraces love and the coming together of two people from different backgrounds and races. This movie shows a young man’s journey from rags to riches, thanks to the help of a woman who only saw him as a young boy who needed her help.
The movie the Blind Side is a story about a young man named Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) who experienced nothing but heartache since he was a little boy. Surviving a life with a mother who was a drug addict along with being taken from one foster home to another and avoiding the gangs in his neighborhood, Michael had anything but a steady life. But thanks to the help of a woman named Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) who takes Michael in one night when she sees him walking alone in the rain, his life takes a complete turn. From living on the streets, to staying at big house in the suburbs with the Tuohy’s and attending an elite school, Michael finally feels he has a real life.
After Michael officially becomes a member of the Tuohy’s family by being adopted, he then tries out for his highschool football team. When he makes it on the team, the Tuohys, Leigh Anne in particular helps Michael give it his all when he is on the field. In the end Michael becomes one of the best players and he gets a football scholarship to go to college.
What is so great about this movie is the fact that it is a true story. The idea that a woman like Leigh Anne Tuohy who had so much compassion for a boy like Michael Oher, that she made him her son and helped him succeed to his fullest capability. Leigh Anne gave Michael a second chance at life, and with that chance he was able to become a football player for the Baltimore Ravens.
Though the movie is mainly about overcoming hardships it touches on the subject of stereotyping. While many woman like Leigh Anne who are considered high society and therefore self absorbed, Leigh Anne disproves that stereotype by adopting Michael. When Leigh Anne first saw Michael, she didn’t see his race, all she saw was a person who had an empty life and needed guidance. And Leigh Anne filled his life by not only giving him a home and an education, but also love.
“Michael just needed to be loved,” Leigh Anne said. And that is what the Tuohy’s gave him.
Viewing this movie is definitely time well spent, to say the least. It is not only heart touching and will make you cry to the point where you think you can’t stop, but it also brings awareness of how we all could help someone in need.
