My Review of The Blind Side

     

   HIGH SENTI-EMOTIONAL DRAMA

          First things first. When I finished watching the movie, I just could not digest the basic plot of the movie. But after hearing that the movie was adopted from the book named “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” by Michael Lewis, I found the movie a lot more convincing but still couldn’t fathom how this could happen in real life.

        The Blind Side is all about a person called Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) who defies odds with the help of Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) and becomes an all-time football superstar in the NFL. Oher (also known as Big Mike) is a homeless teenager who gets an admit into Wingate Christian School on the recommendation from their school’s coach that he possesses excellent athletic abilities. In school, Oher is very reticent and avoids talking with his classmates as he is being vehemently teased for this physique.

       On an extremely chilly evening, when Leigh Anne Tuohy and her family are travelling they find Oher desolate on a road side and so she takes him home to let him stay in her house for that night. Slowly, Leigh Anne Tuohy begins to like Oher’s character and lets him stay in their house and she buys him new clothes, prepares him a new room etc., During the course of time, Sandra Bullock and her husband become the legal guardians of Michael Oher.

      Oher begins to excel in NFL after a while on the advice on Leigh Anne Tuohy and many NFL teams start vying for Oher seeing his potential. But unfortunately Oher does not possess good academic credentials and so Leigh Anne Tuohy arranges a tutor and with the help of the tutor he gets the required credentials which will allow him to qualify to play in the NFL. But a rift arises between Leigh Anne Tuohy and Michael Oher and what happens after that and what team he decides to play forms the rest of the story told in a heart-melting climax.

     The movie completely belongs only to two persons. Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher and Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy. Aaron as the restrained Oher does an amazing job portraying varied emotions in the beginning and the ending stages of the movie. Personally, I loved the sequence where he saves Bullock’s son from a car accident. Sandra Bullock as the self opined Leigh Anne Tuohy also does a good job in playing her role to aptness. She does not mind speaking her mind and calling a spade a spade. The other characters such as the tutor of Oher, the coach of Oher and the husband and kids of Leigh Anne Tuohy also give a laudable performance.

    Overall, The Blind Side will work for people who like to watch a clean emotional drama. For people who do not like the plot or who find the plot unfathomable, it might not be the same.