before or after he turns around in his grave? Daddy's been gone five years Elaine. Leigh Ann, is this some sort of white guilt thing? He's going to be eighteen in a few months it doesn't make much sense to legally adopt. Well, I say you make it official and just adopt him Hey, does Michael get the family discount at Taco Bell? 'Cause if he does Sean is gonna lose a few stores. The blind side cast movie#Michael is aggressively courted by SEC football coaches (many playing themselves), and, after an unpleasant run-in with an NCAA official toward the film's end, Leigh Anne soothes Michael by assuring him that "the past is gone, the world's a good place, and it's all gonna be OK." The filmmakers would like to lull you to sleep with this milk of amnesia, hiding behind the fact that this bewilderingly condescending movie is based on an actual person-but one who you end up knowing almost nothing about.He looks so big compared to you like Jessica Lange right next to King Kong But Michael is unable to figure out what he actually needs to do on the field-until his white mama explains it to him: "This team is your family. becomes an unbearable martinet, bossing Michael around during drills for football practice, where the large lad shines as a left tackle at the Christian academy, eventually drafted to Ole Miss. Life with benevolent white people gives Michael the golden opportunity to partake in one of the most patronizing, we-are-the-world scenes imaginable: dueting with S.J. Viewers, however, are constantly reminded of the pathologies the black gentle giant has escaped: the crack-addicted mother, the thugs of the country-ghetto housing project who offer him a 40-ouncer. But for all the supposed uplift, Bullock's facile Good Christian Materialist Southern Woman is part of The Blind Side's desperate cynicism, succinctly expressed in Sean's comment to his wife: "Michael's gift is his ability to forget." In a way, Oher's story does change Bullock's life, giving her an awards-bait role filled with preachiness and thickly accented speech. Though they congratulate their friend's altruism, they're convinced Leigh Anne's new charge will either rob her Memphis McMansion or violate her daughter: "You're changing that boy's life," one applauds. An officious caretaker, Leigh Anne clears out the guest bedroom for Michael, earning the nervous praise of the Tennessee doyennes with whom she regularly lunches. (Jae Head, giving the year's most excruciatingly muggy performance by a child actor), who attend the same Christian academy that recently accepted the mountainous youth. The steel magnolia who takes pity on homeless Big Mike after she sees him walking in the freezing rain is Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock), a frosted interior decorator, wife of Taco Bell franchise owner Sean (Tim McGraw) and mother of teenage cheerleader Collins (Lily Collins) and hyper half-pint S.J. Directed by John Lee Hancock and based on a true story recounted in Michael Lewis' 2006 book of the same name, Blind Side the movie peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of blacks who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them. But unlike the howling rage of Claireece Precious Jones, The Blind Side's Michael "Big Mike" Oher (Quinton Aaron) is mute, docile and ever-grateful to the white folks who took him in. Another poor, massive, uneducated black teenager lumbers onto screens this month, two weeks after Precious and obviously timed as a pre-Thanksgiving-dinner lesson in the Golden Rule.
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