Movie Reviews this week looks at the Oscar winning biographical drama The Blind Side.
It
is an absolutely charming story, of Leigh Anne Tuohy played by the
lovely Sandra Bullock (Speed), and the story of her adopted son, and you
can see immediately why she won the best actress Oscar.
She plays
a conservative mother in a very nice and well-off neighbourhood, who
sees Michael Oher played very convincingly by Quinton Aaron, one rainy
night walking aimlessly, she asks her husband Sean played by Tim McGraw
(Four Christmases), to stop the car, she asks him where he is heading
seeing he is just in a t-shirt in the pouring rain, he says he is going
to the gym, she asks him again why he is going to the gym, and tells him
the gym closed a while back, and for him not to lie to her, he says he
is simply going there because it is warm.
Prior to this, we are
told the story of how Mike got into the school in the first place. The
coach at this Christian school, Burt Cotton played charmingly as always
by Ray McKinnon (Randy and the Mob) had been approached by a fellow to
allow his son into the school, as well as Mike, the coach sees Mike and
the man's son playing basketball and sees the potential of Mike making
them famous on a sporting arena, so convinces the board that it is their
Christian duty to let him in. However in class Mike seems distant
minded, and all the teachers are worried as he seems the slowest in the
class, except for one particular teacher Mrs. Bower played the lovely
Kim Dickens (Hollow Man) who notices Mike remembers the majority of what
the teachers are saying, as he is able to describe in his own words the
grasp of what it is they are saying, but may not necessarily write it
down as eloquently as they wanted. As all the teachers are discussing
Mike's ability one day, wondering if he can write, Mrs. Bower shows them
a note that Mike had written that had been thrown in the trash,
speaking of his sadness and what the teachers expect of him, to do all
the work alone.
Leigh asks where he lives, his parents, or
grandparents, Mike shakes his head nonchalantly, and Leigh amazingly
takes him to her home, with a mild confrontation with her husband as to
how long Mike is going to stay, he asks "This is just for the one
night"? Where Leigh nods absentmindedly, but the expression on her face
is already thinking of much longer term.
Mike gets along with
Leigh's two children, her son S.J. played very impressively by Jae Head,
and her daughter Collins played by the adorable Lily Collins, Leigh
asks her how she would feel if Mike moved in with them permanently, she
nonchalantly agrees, and when Mike is asked how he would feel moving
having Leigh and Sean as his legal guardians, he smiles and thought he
was already part of the family.
The Blind Side turns out is a very
beautiful movie, of acceptance and love that a young man needs, and the
struggle one woman faces with social services, her social circles, and
the community in trying to make one boy's life better, and what makes
this movie even more amazing is this is a true story.
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