The Blind Side is a movie about Michael Oher, who is an NFL Football player. This is his story of how he got to the NFL. Obviously he has a very unlikely story of how he got there. Michael Oher was homeless when his mother was taken away from by the State being declared an unfit mother for him. He spent his whole in and out of foster homes until a family, (the Tuhays) notices him at their kids high school takes him in as one of their own.
Oher's life is completely opposite from The Tuhays. They are very well off and can buy anything they want. They live in a huge house, where Oher used live in the projects of Memphis.
The school that accepts him is Wingate, a Christian high school. I call it that because it was emphasized in the movie. Oher is one of the few black students there, which makes him feel uncomfortable.
There is some racial tension in this movie and it was almost like watching Jacky Robinson play in the Forties. I say this because Oher is the only black guy on an all white football team and the players he plays against are all white. And some people point this out in the movie. Of course these people aren't shown as being good people in the movie and they aren't.
The Tuhays play just as much of a role in this as Oher does. Leanne and Sean Tuhay become legal guardians of Oher and they treat him like he's another son of there's. The kids, Collins and Sean Jr. also treat him like a brother. The interactions between them are really great to watch because I don't expect a lot people to do this. For one they barely know this guy, and I don't expect a lot people like them to take in someone who are homeless.
Oher finds himself when he plays football and he's becomes great at it. When he starts practicing with the team he doesn't know what he's doing. Leanne and Sean Jr. help coach him along with the Coach Cotton who is the Wingate Football coach. He's becomes a great left Tackle, which is a position I know to well because I was one for my first two or three games before I was moved to guard. Oher is so good that college coaches want to recruit him and they are played by themselves, coaches like Lou holtz, Tommy Tubberville, Nick Saban, and even Houston Nutt. The best part about these meetings is Sean Jr. who acts almost like Oher's agent.
He decides on which college he goes to and that's the rest of the story really. The Blind Side is a movie of unexpected expectations. It's a situation that I wouldn't think would happen in life and I don't know how anyone could make this up, sometimes fiction just can't beat life stories like this. It shows how different people can get along and get through their difference and just realize that they are all people and should be treated the same. It's something that a lot of people don't do and that's shown in the movie as well. It's a story of hope and football and it's really great to watch Oher achieve what he wants to do in life, which is to play for the NFL.
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