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movie_analysis_of_the_blindside_4.docxMahmoud El-Assuli
Ms. Jennifer Wilson
ENG. 1010
April 3rd 2015
Movie Analysis of ‘The Blindside’
The story of Michael begins with him being depicted as a homeless child who comes from a broken family. His mother was also heavily on drugs, and his father is never really present in his life. Michael was raised in Tennessee in Memphis. He grew up in housing development in the inner city that city, and he even dubbed it the Hurt Village. The idea of having Michal start out as a poor child who is not cared for works positively to pass the message across to the viewers.
Since he has a very complicated state of the family, he is seen going in and out of foster homes, and when he becomes a teenager, he is thrown out by the people he lives with. Luckily, he is enrolled in a private school that also happens to be Christian. The coach was also looking for a player his size. He goes to a similar school as the Tuohy kids. This is a very effective tool in terms of cinematography
Michael is depicted in this movie as a quiet person who is a bit more like a child in his personality. This is so because he even goes ahead to play with children in kindergarten who sometimes either refuse to play with him or ignore him. Eventually, Michael becomes friends with one of the Tuohy sons. Since Michael has no money or anything at all, he lives on snack containers that have some food left after an event has occurred in school. When Mr. Tuohy learns of this, he pays for a meal so as the young Michael can have some food.
The delivery of this movie continues to improve and capture the audiences mind. On one day during the winter, as Michael is walking down to the gym in the school where he used to sleep, the Tuohy family sees him and invites him over to their place for the night. As Michael tries to leave their house after the night, they asked him to stay for dinner. The children of the Tuohy household accept for Michael to stay over for dinner. This meant that Michael would stay in this house throughout the day until dinner time. Mrs. Tuohy soon offers Michael a bed and a room where he could stay.
The audience gets even more caught by the movie. Here the writers and directors capture the audience's mind and start walking in the shoes of the characters. Mrs. Tuohy starts to investigate on Michael's life, checking records and test results as she continues to offer him more and more favors that catch his eye. She finds out that Michael is very good at protective skills but much worse in every other aptitude tests of careers. Mrs. Tuohy uses these findings to sell the idea of playing in the field to Michael. Michael was in the past unable to grasp the rules and regulations of the game of football and its hang, and to even help him understand what the role of a player like him would be useful for in the field.
When Michael get the hand of the game and gets to understand the game of football well, he starts to play for his team and gets real good at it.
Mrs. Tuohy gets Michael further involved in her family affairs. During the photograph of the Christmas card of that year, she invited Michael to be in the Tuohy family photo. Some of Mrs. Tuohy's friend find out about what she is doing with Michael and make fun of her. She takes offense in this move and asks them to stop making fun of what she is doing and respect it. She felt so disrespected that she even threatened to stop seeing them if they continued with this sort of disrespect.
When Michael goes to university, an opportunity for him to play in the school team presents itself. Michael, however, requires to get better grades for him to make the team. The Tuohy family pays someone to tutor him so his grades could improve and hence he would make the team. The tutor that was given the job to make sure Michael gets good grades in school is a woman who speaks her mind, and is also kind to Michael. She is very determined to ensure that Michael succeeds because she also wants Michael to make the team.
In one of the lessons, she tells Michael a story about the University of Tennessee being rumored to burry parts of dead bodies under the football field of their school. Michaels believes this story without a doubt. As a result of this rumor, he goes ahead to join the Old Miss team, despite the fact that his eyes were focused on the University of Tennessee team.
Thoughts of adopting Michael Cross Mrs. Tuohy's mind. This then pushes her to go and visit Michaels's mother to have a discussion about this matter. At first, Michael's mother refuses and is very rigid and against this move, but eventually she agrees. She, however, warns Mrs. Tuohy is telling her about the many times that Michael ran away from home without having said that he was going to leave. Michael's mother even prepares Mrs. Tuohy telling her how they had even named Michael, the runner due to his inability to give warning that he wasn't going to come home. She even tells her that one day, Michael is just going to leave her.
Mrs. Tuohy also has to deal with some people who came and started insinuating things about her that were not pleasant to the ear. Mrs. Tuohy's strength and courage and lack of cowardice is properly brought out when she threatens these people and shows them how brave and courageous she is.
When Michael's grades become high enough for him to choose which team he wants to be on, he chooses the Ole Miss. This is the team that Mrs. Tuohy had been a cheerleader in, Sean Tuohy, the one who was holding the negotiation with coaches wanted to play for. This raised the suspicions of some people who thought that Michael had been conditioned to pick that team by his tutor and Mrs. Tuohy. An Investigator starts out on this story to figure out the dynamics of this story through an interview.
Before the interview is over, Michael storms out and goes to find the mother that bore him in Hurt Village. The guys who had earlier confronted Mrs. Tuohy approach Michael and were even hospitable to him offering him beer. These guys suggest that Michael is either sleeping with Mrs. Tuohy or her daughter, and maybe that is why he picked to play for Ole Miss, instead of Tennessee. This annoys Michael and makes him switch to being protective of himself. The mean man threatens to hurt these two ladies himself if he did not withdraw from this team.
Michael engages him in a physical altercation, pushing him around and knocking away his gun.
This movie is one of the best movies in terms of delivery and success in passing the message of the movie. It is therefore very successful and efficient.
Works cited:
IMDb. "The Blindside." Review (2015): 1-3. 4 April 2015. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878804/>.
