The right side of the blind side

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2013)

The Blind Side
Everyone is born in different circumstances in different places on different times. Circumstances that help us form who we are and set the goals for who we want to be even though some do not have the same opportunities. Since we dream of what we want to become and be when we grow up since we are children. But what makes you different form other people is when you are able to accomplish your dreams no matter what obstacles are on your way, just like Michael Oher demonstrates everyone that nothing is impossible in the movie "The Blind Side".
This movie has one of the most outstanding casts to represent every single actual person. With Sandra Bullock who plays Leigh Anne Tuohy, the adoptive mother of Michael Oher, Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy, as Micheal's adoptive father, Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher, Jae Head as S.J.Tuohy and Lily Collins as Collins Tuohy, the real children of the Tuohy's. Sandra Bullock received many accolades for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy, a strong woman who changes her point of view about society and people from the first time she meets Michael. Where her character starts to develop into a more conscious and less superficial woman. We see a strong, hardheaded woman who shows no limitation for love and family. However, the role of Jae Head as S.J. Tuohy is one to remember as much as the one of Sandra Bullock. This child was able to represent the power of family and how much it actually means for Michael. They all become the only real family Michael will have and has had in his life and will help him become part of their family. As well as to fight to reach his dreams and goals.
Set in a high-class background we see Michael, a Afro-American teenage boy who has gone to many things in his life and who is lost in the world. Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. He has nowhere to go and no one to take care of him and then the Tuohy family finds him. With no desire from Leigh Anne Tuohy for this boy with nothing at all she i convinced by her son and husband to take Michael home for a night. Which, turns out to be more than one night.
But one of the biggest surprises was Sandra Bullock playing Leigh Anne Tuohy. There are not many movie where we see a strong woman role that has such influence in there peoples lives or see a movie which shows there is no limit or difference when it comes down to love. This is a role that showed another aspect of Sandra Bullock, not longer like Ms. Congeniality but as a strong powerful mother and leading woman. Even with her blonde hair and playing a rich southern woman she exceeds expectations with the role. She comes to show true love and true interest in this young Afro-American boy who they found in the street. Then helps get up in his feet and up into real life succeeding by accomplishing his dream.
However, the development of the character of Collins Tuohy is not fully developed. We see some scenes where she interacts with Michael but they are not fully developed as for most of the other characters, which do seem to be more emotionally attached to "Big Mike", Michael Oher. The development of Collins is superficial, for her being a teenage girl growing up with a strange guy in her house must have been hard but still it is not showed to the audience. Or maybe it was the idea of the writer to never fully develop this characters relationship with the main character.
As well as the undeveloped relationships between the characters in the movie we also see a lot of stereotypes that are brought up in the movie. Texas and most Americans' love football and coaches love to win. However, what surprised me was how they over come these stereotypes throughout the movie and show how "Big Mike" made his own way in life.
The message of this film is very clear and heartwarming. Telling a story that inspires everyone to be better and to thrive to be the best. It's about helping others around us, that we would never think to talk to or know, and help them get up in their feet for them to walk and be able to become great. It's about helping the people that need to find the way and be able to give them a new chance to be able to accomplish what they always wanted.
This is an outstanding biographical movie that depicts the hard times and the struggle it took to get to where Michael is. The director and writer of the script for the movie John Lee Hancock did an amazing job with the shot selections and storyline. He was able to transfer the struggle and the raw emotions of the book, written by Michael Lewis, into real life.
This movie is rated PG-13, a movie that shows true struggles in life and real situations that many people face and is worth watching over and over again. Most movies nowadays only show violence, sex, and have no real message or moral. This is one of the movies that you will not be able to forget. Just as one of the most famous and classical movies of all time "Forest Gump", this movie shows that love has no limits and that everything you dream off you can do.