The Blind Side
'The Blind Side' is a feel-good family movie about how a successful Christian Republican business woman, played by Sandra Bullock, follows her conscience and takes in a homeless black boy. The family make him one of their own and get him through school, training him on the way to be one of the greatest American football players.
It moves along with a few sanitised scenes of harsh reality, but is totally digestable if a little sweet on the pallet. It is based on a true story and is a demonstration of how we can rescue people from a life of crime and destruction if we could all make a little space in our hearts. After adopting Michael Oher the family pay for a private tutor, played by the lovely Kathy Bates, to get him into college. She explains that she is a Democrat and the best line of the film is when Bullock's husband says: "To think we had a black son before we met a Democrat!" The movie blows away a lot of misconceptions about the 'Bible-Belt', but it has its critics�
<b> Already Professor Dick Rawkins has penned a manuscript called 'The Blind Side Delusion' claiming that the story is untrue as all the people taking part in the movie were in fact professional actors. His counterpart in the US Denise Denise, made famous by a song by Blondie in 1978, has written 'Breaking the Blind Side' a highly scholarly tome which claims that taking black homeless teenagers into your home and giving them the confidence to be world-class sportsmen is an everyday occurrance that does not warrant being turned into a movie. On the literary front Piss Ritchens' 'The Blind Side is not Great' subtitled 'Why Sandra Bullock ruins your Sunday afternoon' claims that the story is a force for evil and must be discouraged from circulation in whatever format it appears.
It is obvious that this story of Christian love and sacrifice that goes beyond socio-economic and racial barriers has caused quite a stir among those who feel such barriers should remain intact, and that there is nothing greater than fulifilling ones own selfish desires and selling crate loads of paperback books in WH Smiths.
It moves along with a few sanitised scenes of harsh reality, but is totally digestable if a little sweet on the pallet. It is based on a true story and is a demonstration of how we can rescue people from a life of crime and destruction if we could all make a little space in our hearts. After adopting Michael Oher the family pay for a private tutor, played by the lovely Kathy Bates, to get him into college. She explains that she is a Democrat and the best line of the film is when Bullock's husband says: "To think we had a black son before we met a Democrat!" The movie blows away a lot of misconceptions about the 'Bible-Belt', but it has its critics�
<b> Already Professor Dick Rawkins has penned a manuscript called 'The Blind Side Delusion' claiming that the story is untrue as all the people taking part in the movie were in fact professional actors. His counterpart in the US Denise Denise, made famous by a song by Blondie in 1978, has written 'Breaking the Blind Side' a highly scholarly tome which claims that taking black homeless teenagers into your home and giving them the confidence to be world-class sportsmen is an everyday occurrance that does not warrant being turned into a movie. On the literary front Piss Ritchens' 'The Blind Side is not Great' subtitled 'Why Sandra Bullock ruins your Sunday afternoon' claims that the story is a force for evil and must be discouraged from circulation in whatever format it appears.
It is obvious that this story of Christian love and sacrifice that goes beyond socio-economic and racial barriers has caused quite a stir among those who feel such barriers should remain intact, and that there is nothing greater than fulifilling ones own selfish desires and selling crate loads of paperback books in WH Smiths.