Guest Blogger: Jennie 2

The Blind Side based on a true story portrays a young black male that comes from a broken home. The name of this young man is Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) but many know him as “Big Mike”. The family that this young man comes from is far from perfect, sadly he does not know his own father and his mother has become a drug addict who cannot provide even the simplest things in life such as a roof over his head. Michael also has little to no education or even skills to help him throughout life. On the bright side he is a very good natured and respectful young man despite the bad lifestyle he is forced to live in. Michael is soon enrolled into a private Christian school by one of his friends fathers and that is when he finally meets Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) and his life then begins to get better. Leigh decides to take Michael under her wing and bring him into her home. Later in the movie she realizes his passion in football and begins to push him accidemically so that he will be able to play on the football team, she even hires a tutor to help in him in the subjects that he was really struggling in. Eventually he gets recieves multiple scholarship to many different colleges for his extrordanary tanlent in football. In my opinon Quinton Aaron had played the role of Michael remarkably, even though he had come from a bad world he had come out on top and made something of his life. The emotion just in the eyes of Quinton helped show the struggles that he had gone through in the past and gave the audience a different perspective on things, contrasting in other movies where the actors do not show as much emotion in which they do not appeal to the audiences attention. Also Sandra Bullock’s performance was incredible there is no doubt in my mind why she was given 2010’s Academy Award of Best Actress. The way that she had taken charge of the family and also took Micheal into her home showed the independence that so many women now a days are striving for. in addition to the emotion that Quinton had showed the audience Sandra had done the exact same, she had almost put the audience right in her shoes with all the smiles to even the tears that she had shed throughout the movie. I believe that the theme of this movies is "no matter who you are, what background you come from, what religion, what ethnicity it doesn't matter you can do whatever you want to do as long as you work hard to achieve it", Micheal is a prime example of this theme because he was given nothing in the beginning of his life but then when given that little push and support he had made it so very far in his life. I totally agree with most of the critics on their reviews of this movie “Overall, The Blind Side is an excellent movie that manages to be about football without ever being a "football movie." The performances are truthful and you're left fully invested not only in Michael, but in the Toughy's in general. It really does overcome all it could have been to be a subtler, smarter film than one might expect” said by Christopher Monfette. In my opinion this qutoe had taken the words right out of my mouth. The movie in itself was amazing in my eyes and I do still tend to watch it over and over again. With that being said I can confidently say that this movie is well worth anyones time and money. There’s not a doubt in my mind that someone would not like The Blind Side.