BlindSide (2009)

The movie ‘Blind side’ (2009) is based on the true story which is semi biographical drama film. It is written and directed by John Lee Hancock and based on The blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The movie is all about Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who plays for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL (National Football League in USA). Sandra Bullock (Leigh Anne) won the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The film itself also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

Michael Oher. Michael Oher is Seventeen years old, an extremely large, physically imposing black youth. Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy who take in a homeless teenage African-American, Michael “Big Mike” Oher. He has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. He had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Every time he is placed in a new home, he runs away.

 The story begins from Michael’s friend’s father helps him to enroll the school Wingate Christian School and the football coach impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism. At his new school, Michael is befriended by a boy named Sean Jr. (SJ). Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road, shivering in the cold; when she learns he intends to spend the night huddled outside the school gym, she offers him a place to sleep at her house. The next morning, when she sees Michael leaving, she asks him to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her family. Part of that emotional investment for Leigh Anne is fully understanding Michael as a person so that he can fulfill his potential as a human being, which includes giving him opportunities such as what Coach Cotton initially saw in Michael as a potential left tackle. When Leigh Anne seeks to become Michael's legal guardian, she learns he was separated from his drug-addict mother when he was seven and that no one knows her whereabouts.

 She is also told that even though he scored low in almost every category in a career aptitude test, he is in the 98th percentile in "protective instincts".

Michael joins the school football team but he has a shaky start due to his polite and gentle nature, yet after some encouragement by Leigh Anne to tap into his "protective instincts" and regard his teammates as he would members of his family, Michael dominates on the field. Possessed of enormous stature and titanic strength, Michael performs exceptionally on the field and catches the eye of many college coaches from around the state. SJ tells Michael that his mother cannot stand Tennessee. Leigh Anne discovers that to get a NCAA Division I Scholarship, Michael needs a 2.5 GPA. His current GPA is too low, so they hire a private tutor, Miss Sue, to raise his grades. During one of his private tutor classes, Miss Sue, a University of Mississippi alumna, tells him that the FBI bury the body parts of unidentified dead people under the University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium. Michael's heart aches and this is shown as a possible reason for Michael opting to join University of Mississippi. Michael ends up with a GPA of 2.52.

 Subsequently, Michael receives a call from the NCAA, who suspects that the Tuohys forced Michael to select Mississippi, rather than Tennessee, his home-state team. The investigator also tells him that the Tuohys were from Mississippi and his high school coach got a better job at Ole Miss after Michael chose Mississippi.Michael leaves the investigation room and confronts Leigh Anne; he asks her if she only took him in so that he would play football for her alma mater. Michael goes to his birth mother's apartment in the projects, where his old friends at first welcome him, then make sexually suggestive remarks about his adoptive mother and sister. A fight ensues, in which Michael easily dispatches three armed thugs, and flees the scene. Leigh Anne tells him that she wants him to choose which university he accepts a scholarship from and any decisions he makes in life will be supported by her.

Michael returns to the NCAA office and tells the investigator that he chose Ole Miss because his whole family has gone to school there. Michael is accepted by Ole Miss with a football scholarship. Leaving Michael at school, Leigh Anne feels happy for what she has done for Michael and also what he has done for them all.


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