The Blind Side Film Analysis
AP Psychology
Kaitlyn L. Blankenship
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The Blind Side is a movie based on the true story or Michael Oher. Michael is a boy that hasn’t had the best luck in life. He bounces from home to home, living with friends when he can so he can afford “Hurt Village,” a dangerous part of town where his mom resides. One of his friends gets both his son and Michael into a school by appealing to the coach, showing him that Michael could play any sport. The coach pulls some strings and Michael is admitted. A young boy, SJ, and his sister, Collins, also attend Wingate Christian School. One night at a volleyball game, Sean Tuohy notices Michael cleaning up the bleachers after school. A few nights later, on
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She asks him where he’s going, and he tells her he’s going to the school gym. She knows the school gym is closed and asks if he has anywhere to stay that night. He says yes. She responds and tells him “Don’t you dare lie to me.” Oher slowly shakes his head no. She brings him to their car, tells her son to make room, and tells Michael to get in. They go back to the huge and extravagant house the Tuohy's live in and Leigh Anne sets up sheets on the couch, because she said the bonus room has sample boxes all over it. When she comes up into her room with her husband, she starts asking if he thinks Michael will steal anything. Sean says simply “We’ll find out in the morning.” and turns out the light. The next morning, Leigh Anne is going downstairs and jokes to Sean “If you hear a scream, call the insurance adjuster.” and when she goes downstairs Oher is nowhere to be found. Leigh Anne runs outside, where Michael has his plastic grocery bag and is walking onto the street, leaving. She calls out to him and asks him if he is spending Thanksgiving with his family. He spends Thanksgiving with them, and Leigh Anne asks if he wants to stay with them long term. Michael responds that he “don’t want to go anywhere else” and Leigh Anne says “Alright, then.” She clears out a room for him, buys him a bed, desk, dresser, and clothes. She asks him if he …show more content…
They conform to what everyone else is doing or saying and don’t necessarily think for themselves (Myers’ p. 653). Michael conformed to playing football. He didn’t have any objections against playing, but it also wasn’t necessarily his idea to play. His coach and the Tuohy’s encouraged it and he wanted to make people happy, so he tried. At first, he was really bad, but he kept working at it and getting help from his family and ended up a really good player that everyone in the country wanted on their teams for college. The Tuohy’s and Michael’s tutor, Miss Sue, went to Ole Miss and, of course, wanted Michael to go there as well. Michael wanted to make them proud, so he chose Ole Miss to go to school and follow in his family’s footsteps to make them proud. He kind of conformed to this decision as well. Michael really didn’t care where he went to school, but his family did and he wanted to give them something in return for being so kind to him and giving him everything he
Everyone passes except Lori, who has to get glasses and is surprised how clear she can see. Jeannette’s parents like to leave the windows open and one day during the night a stranger came into Jeannette’s room touching her private areas. Brian, Jeannette, and her father try to look for him after chasing him off. Reading the paper
When Meghan hears me enter she runs crying "Tim's teasing me and I'm hungry." I ask the kids, "Why didn't you feed her?" Tim responds, "she didn't say she was hungry." Pat runs up from the basement and reminds me I have to take him to guitar practice now or he'll be late.
The game of football, Michael Oher, and Sean Junior all need dependence for success. Whether that success is winning a game, becoming a division 1 college player, or being happy, no one can win alone in the team sport, life. People need a team by their side, to support them during their game. They need people to cheer them on in life, like cheerleaders in a game. They can not win in succeed if they are facing it alone.
Although it is ostensibly a story about a black man, Michael Oher, no one could claim the movie is about the character of Michael. That would be a difficult story for Hollywood to tell, while the story of white people doing charity by helping the so very destitute uneducated black people is an easy story to tell. As the Dallas Observer puts it, "Blind Side the movie peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of blacks who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them." Michael is never a fully realized character. Many of his actions make little sense, and we never see things through his perspective or understand his emotions. Throughout, he's treated as a child, not just an under-educated teen. His white tutor tries to scare him off from going to Tennessee by telling him a ghost story. He doesn't understand football until Leigh Anne explains it in dumbed-down metaphors. Really? Is this what Michael Oher is like? Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for mirroring Leigh Anne Tuohy drawl for drawl, but did anyone even try to represent Michael Oher believably? In addition to this infantalized portrayal of what should be the main character, we're treated to a revealing look at the white vision of blackness. We get scenes of Michael's crack addict mother, of gang-bangers drinking 40s, of newspaper headlines of kids killed in
He feels sorry for him. He cries and gets angry with his guidance counselor. “Then, I started screaming at the guidance counselor that Michael could have talked to me. And I started crying even harder. ”(Perks 5)
When Cynthia arrives at Monica’s and Maurice’s house her body language looks up at the hou... ... middle of paper ... ... s shift bringing the family closer together and leading to Monica crying in Cynthia’s arms, Leigh delivers the message to the audience that honesty is an important element of a strong relationship and without it the relationship will fall apart, ‘why can’t you tell them… im sorry but its almost destroying our relationship’. Leigh’s message is portrayed thought Maurice’s speech ‘Why can’t we share our pain’.
The Blind Side is based on the remarkable true story of Baltimore Ravens' offensive left tackle Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron). Michael grew up in the inner city housing projects with his mother in Memphis, Tennessee aptly named "Hurt Village." Michael's story begins with his being homeless and coming from a broken home with a drug-addicted mother, and an absentee father. Because of his family circumstances, Family Services took control of his life as he was growing up. Unfortunately, he was being bounced around in and out of foster homes, and now as a teenager he finds himself discarded by the people he has been living with. By a stroke of luck, and the coach's wish for a player the size of Michael, he ends up being enrolled in a private Christian school where the
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Once inside, he heads for the upstairs. When he reaches the second floor, he finds the door to the master bedroom and enters to find the jewelry he had come for. John takes the watches, bracelets, necklaces, and rings and stuffs them into a small duffle bag. He quickly turns and when he exits the bedroom is confronted by a teenage girl, who he knows to be the daughter of the home owner. John makes a quick decision and hits the girl in the head with the pry bar and she falls to the floor.
The Blind Side is a film that follows the life of Michael Oher, an underprivileged high school football player that is supported by an upper class family, the Tuohys, and taken into their home. They provide him with shelter and a bed that he says he has never had. As the Tuohys are driving down the street one night, they see Michael walking alone in the cold. Mrs. Tuohy tells her husband to stop the car and she lets Michael inside. The couple discusses later that night about whether it was a good idea or not to allow Michael into their home. They ultimately decide that they are doing what is best for him and they can sacrifice a little bit of their life to help Michael. They support him in school, on the football field, and when he is