Leigh Paatsch started
her review by saying, “A vision worth seeing if you can look past the obvious. Based
on a sincerely inspirational true story, The Blind Side pours its audience a
straight shot of full-strength uplift, with a corn-syrup chaser on the side.”
Not everyone will have
the ability to take all of this in, but the creators of this film look like
they don’t really care. Paatsch said, “As a work of middle-of-the-road
entertainment for middle America, The Blind Side unashamedly revels in the
hokey, the homespun and the heartfelt.” Very powerfully, as it turns out.
Paatsch described, “At
the centre of the familiar, yet fascinating feelgood tale told here are two
radically contrasting figures. Summarised in Hollywood shorthand, one could be
described as a plus-size Forrest Gump, while the other is a posh Erin
Brockovich.”
Michael Oher, played by
Quinton Aaron, is a homeless teen, just one of a handful of children projected
alone in a terrible society by a drug-addicted single mother.
A friendly tall person
that is one the spectrum and a dishonestly unemotional personality, Michael
gets enrolled into a very good Christian school in Memphis.
One of the sports
coaches thinks Michael might have the look of a great defensive football player.
Michael thinks he might be able to quietly sleep in the gym at night.
That will not go under
the radar of Leigh Anne Tuohy, played by Sandra Bullock. Paatsch said, “Once
this well-heeled wife of a fast-food tycoon gets wind of Michael’s plight, she
throws open the doors of her McMansion and sets about getting the kid back on
his feet.”
Leigh Anne’s husband
(country singer Tim McGraw) and children (Lily Collins and Jae Head) know
better than to go against with, as Paatsch described: “her when she’s on feisty
fairy-godmother form.” The sincere friendship and support the whole family
gives to Michael leave a huge impact on the audience as his eventual rise to
football popularity.
Paatsch said, “Performances
here are perfunctory across the board. Though Bullock is exceptionally
well-cast, there is certainly no "wow" factor to her work that
warrants red-hot favourtism for the next Best Actress Oscar. Bullock’s unknown
castmate Aaron achieves just as much in a far tougher role.”
Hands down, “The Blind
Side” has its own amount of flaws. The script can be easily pointed out for
everything but not pointing out the racial problems that had to have made
Michael accomplishing his dream so much harder.
Paatsch noted, “In what
is clearly the film’s worst (and painfully whitest) scene, Leigh Anne goes to
lunch with a flock of socialites who condescendingly peck at her charitable
efforts with Michael.”
“Honey, you are
changing that boy’s life,” says one of the nicer women at the table.
Leigh Anne responds
happily as you fear she would: “No…he’s changing mine.”
Paatsch said, “There
are several ouch-worthy moments like this in The Blind Side, but they are
spaced just far enough apart not to devalue the real worth of Michael Oher’s
story.”
If the film influences
even a little group of the audience to be nicer organized to other people, then
it looks like they have done that.
As good as the movie
is, when you look at the real story of Michael Oher, it feels like they just
insulted the man. In reality, he is a very intelligent man and the family did
take him in, but it wasn’t because he had nowhere to go. He still had a home
that he could go to. Michael Oher did not have any disabilities or anything
because, like already mentioned, he is very intelligent. However, this is still
a feel good movie that you should watch on Thanksgiving, but I think if you
just watch it once, that would be enough. However, if you can watch it more
than once, good for you.
Happy Thanksgiving my
online readers! I hope everyone had a good dinner tonight. Look out tomorrow
for the finale of “Highlander Month.”
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