The Blind Side is a movie about a boy who has nothing and a Christian family who helps him gain more than just material

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 2010)

The Blind Side is a movie about a boy who has nothing and a Christian family who helps him gain more than just material. Michael Oher played by Quinton Aaron was a boy headed down all the wrong roads, and not because he chose to but because he had no other option. He was going to school every day and then pretty much living out of the school for the most part. One night the Tuohy family noticed Michael walking down the street and had at this time figured out that Michael was homeless. Leigh Ann Touhy the mother played by Sandra Bullock insists on giving him a place to stay. From that moment on the family had grown to love Michael, and his ways. They learned that he was traumatized as a child and has a keen sense of security when it comes to people that he loves.
In my opinion the theme of this movie is that you should never ever judge a book by its cover. This may sound so clichÃ© in many ways, but if it wasn't for the Tuohy family who would have known what would have came from Michael, they had compassion for others and they seen something in him that many other hadn't even thought to stop and analyze. They kept faith in Michael and because of that he became a big star athlete down the road.
Another theme I caught was never under estimate the silent ones. They are silent but deadly. And this deadly isn't the deadly as in harmful, but he can "hold his own". Michael was a traumatized boy and obviously grown a sense of how to protect his self. As he began to play football the guys on other teams looked at him as he was a joke, they later found out that the names they called him soon ticked him off and he used that to climb his way to the top and become one of the best football players out there.
As mentioned above it said that Michael Oher was a traumatized boy, I feel like this was a thematic idea for the fact that it reoccurs throughout the movie, sometimes in good ways and in bad ways. There was one scene when Michael went back to his old house and all these bad men where there, they obviously knew him through his mom, but they kept saying these vulgar things of his mom and then turned on him, something clicked in him and he just went off and used his protective instincts from being traumatized. Also another time was when he was in the football game which was mentioned above. That was mainly for the good.
Well, initially I feel like this movie gives people hope and faith that they can do what they want with their lives. Within the theme it also shows that inner strength comes from courage. I would also like to say that not everyone is selfish. There are some good people out there, and when you find these people don't take advantage of them, respect the fact that they are helping you.