**just a note to readers. I've just begun reviewing movies. I do old movies (5-10 years old), recent movies and new movies so that eventually this blog will be a great source and data base for personal reviews. For each movie I will give my review/opinion of the movie, a rating and a screen or skip. Screen means it's worth watching, skip means it's not. Happy movie watching! :)
The Blind Side
General Synposis
A white family takes an underprivileged black boy into their care.
Review
The opening credits are pretty simple. The opening song is kind of an odd choice. It's an alternative song more suited for an indie flick. This movie begins when a simple mechanic appeals to the school coach for a favour, to admit two low-income, underpriveleged black boys into an elitist surburban church school. For the first half of the movie the viewer sees a severely overweight, unaccomplished black boy navigate his way through a rich, surburban white Christian school. Michael is an isolated individual walking around with no one caring to get to know him, until one brave lady does.
Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) plays our altruist in this movie. She's a headstrong Southern go getter, who knows how to get things done. I have to say our character wasn't born an altruist. She's a dynamic character who goes through an inner change, but she does have potential. Amongst the other white, BMW driving PTA moms she stands out.There are key moments where we see Leigh Anne, our dynamic character start to change. The way she's taken aback when Michael tells her that he's never had a bed, when she discovers the truth about Michael's mother, and when Michael takes her back into his neighborhood.
Even when she is faced with shallow "white" ignorance like in one scene in the movie where a PTA mom asks Leigh Anne if she's worried about her teenage white daughter being under the same roof as a large black boy; Leigh Anne being headstrong ignores the skeptics and takes a chance and trusts her instincts.
The amazing thing about this film is that you can't actually mark the scene where the transition happens. When the Tuohy's and Michael become one. Where the situation of a white family trying to be charitable becomes a family. By the time the Tuohy's ask Michael if he wants to be adopted they are already a family. Maybe it's when Collins, (the daughter played by Lilly Collins) makes a conscious decision to ditch her friends despite the persecution and embrace Mike, the moment S.J. tells Mike to smile, or the moment they'd sit down to Thanksgiving dinner.
Sandra Bullock's acting is flawless. The movie is 3 hours long, and the plot is pretty straight forward. Certain people will relate to this movie more than others. Chances are you'll side with at least one character, or you'll just sit back and take in the miracle, because that's what it is. A black boy is born to a drug addidct mother in the wrong part of town. A story that is so commonly heard, and has a common ending, but not this one. So participate in a success story and watch the film the Blind Side.
Screen :)
My Rating: 7/10
The Blind Side
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A white family takes an underprivileged black boy into their care.
Review
The opening credits are pretty simple. The opening song is kind of an odd choice. It's an alternative song more suited for an indie flick. This movie begins when a simple mechanic appeals to the school coach for a favour, to admit two low-income, underpriveleged black boys into an elitist surburban church school. For the first half of the movie the viewer sees a severely overweight, unaccomplished black boy navigate his way through a rich, surburban white Christian school. Michael is an isolated individual walking around with no one caring to get to know him, until one brave lady does.
Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) plays our altruist in this movie. She's a headstrong Southern go getter, who knows how to get things done. I have to say our character wasn't born an altruist. She's a dynamic character who goes through an inner change, but she does have potential. Amongst the other white, BMW driving PTA moms she stands out.There are key moments where we see Leigh Anne, our dynamic character start to change. The way she's taken aback when Michael tells her that he's never had a bed, when she discovers the truth about Michael's mother, and when Michael takes her back into his neighborhood.
Even when she is faced with shallow "white" ignorance like in one scene in the movie where a PTA mom asks Leigh Anne if she's worried about her teenage white daughter being under the same roof as a large black boy; Leigh Anne being headstrong ignores the skeptics and takes a chance and trusts her instincts.
The amazing thing about this film is that you can't actually mark the scene where the transition happens. When the Tuohy's and Michael become one. Where the situation of a white family trying to be charitable becomes a family. By the time the Tuohy's ask Michael if he wants to be adopted they are already a family. Maybe it's when Collins, (the daughter played by Lilly Collins) makes a conscious decision to ditch her friends despite the persecution and embrace Mike, the moment S.J. tells Mike to smile, or the moment they'd sit down to Thanksgiving dinner.
Sandra Bullock's acting is flawless. The movie is 3 hours long, and the plot is pretty straight forward. Certain people will relate to this movie more than others. Chances are you'll side with at least one character, or you'll just sit back and take in the miracle, because that's what it is. A black boy is born to a drug addidct mother in the wrong part of town. A story that is so commonly heard, and has a common ending, but not this one. So participate in a success story and watch the film the Blind Side.
Screen :)
My Rating: 7/10
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