The Blind Side Citation

The Blind Side is based on a true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher. The title of this film has two different meanings. The first, is a quarterback’s dead zone, which the left tackle must protect in the sport of football. The second, is the dead zone of good intentions, which we might just pass by carelessly. Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is a student at Briarcrest Christian School who is an under privileged African American teenager living in the streets of Memphis who is shuffled between the welfare system. Oher was rescued and taken in by Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw). The affluent white couple had an older daughter named, Collins (Lily Collins) and younger son named, S.J (Jae Head). Although

Tony had gone up to Briarcrest to talk to coach Burt Cotton and not admissions about enrolling his son Steven Hamilton and Michael there, because he thought Coach Cotton might need some players. Steven was accepted, but Michael didn’t give them any reason to believe based on his record that he would be successful. Coach Cotton fought for Michael and he was accepted. The first day of school started and Michael ended up homeless a few weeks later after he overheard tony and his wife arguing about how he had to leave. Michael was only 16, with nobody interested in his well-being not even the welfare system, he was wondering the streets of Memphis before anyone found out he was homeless. The realism of children being taken away from their mother’s due to their addictions is real, as well as people being homeless. But what isn’t realistic is the fact that Michael was homeless for several weeks before anyone found out. Another unrealistic thing about the film is how the Tuohy’s found Michael on the side of the road walking one cold rainy night, and took him into their home right away. I don’t think anyone would have done that especially if they had children at home. I believe someone would have took him to a hotel so he had somewhere to stay that night and offer any

His character did not talk much and he was pretty much emotionless throughout the whole film besides a few scenes that transforms his character and situation into something much more believe. Like, when one of his teachers found a crumbled paper Michael had threw away in the trash that read, “I look and I see white everywhere. White walls, white floors and a lot of white people. The teachers do not know, I have no idea of anything they are talking about. I do not want to listen to anyone especially the teachers. They are giving homework and expecting me to do the problems on my own. I have never done homework in my life. I go to the bathroom and look in the mirror and say, “This is not Michael Oher.” A piece of paper shows how he is feeling, and that brings me back to the realism of his situation. He is at an all-white Christian school and has no idea what is going on and feels alone, like he doesn’t belong. Another scene is when you can see Michael crying outside his mother’s door, as well as when you see him crying when he got into a car accident with S.J. That scene shows how he cared about SJ and how sorry he was to have put them both in that situation. You can especially see the love Michael had for the Tuohy’s and how much love the Tuohy’s had for Michael when they asked him if he would like to become part of their family and responded with “I kind of thought I already was”. That is because he felt