The Blind Side

“There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.”

The Blindside is the movie you have to watch to learn the true meaning of love, passion and power of dream. This movie brings you the story inspired by a real tale which teaches us that the world is actually a good place and everyone deserves a chance in reaching their dreams. Just imagine, a black guy in a white people’s family, dining together, spending time together and shopping along with them. Equality for all is the major message.

In this era of modernization, racism is no longer a relevant issue because nowadays, every individual deserves the same rights as others. There should not be any discrimination towards anyone at all. The family is not afraid of what the society thinks when they adopt the black kid they meet on the streets, while he was walking in the rain with no place to go. Although the double standards still exist in some of the minds of the society members, the idea that black people are bad, dirty and all; this family portrays that color, race and background should not be the boundary for love. They accept Big Mike in their family with open arms, give him shelter, food and comfort, support him in his passion for football and even give him the love that he never had from his own mother. Big Mike’s mother is a sort of mother who never really cared for her children, and sleeps around with different guys until she gets old and sick. In the end, she is alone with no one to care for her.

However, the love of a son towards his own mother always drives Big Mike to sneak out from the orphanages he was placed in to see his mother, bring her food and look after her when she is ill. Big Mike has a very high level of protective instinct, which we can guess where it comes from, he always look out for his mother even though she never loved him. Consequently in football he also shows the protective instinct to help his team towards countless victories, and brings them to the top by blocking opponents and protecting his team members. Even the coach is shocked when he sees what makes Big Mike special, as in the beginning he thinks that Big Mike or Micheal Oher is just a useless kid with no brains because he is quiet and is a bit slow to catch up compared to the other kids. But as time passes by, he realizes that Big Mike plays the role as a big wall to shield his team members from opponent players on the field while playing by using his huge figure and strong force to defend them to score the ball. In the end, Big Mike becomes a well known figure in the football history for his touching life background, motivating ups and downs journey of life and super-loving foster family.

The morale that we learn in the movie Blindside is that to see a person is not by looking at the physical but seeing the heart that lies inside, which in Micheal Oher’s situation a boy who was abandoned by his mother, who never gives up on life, who always gets back up on his feet every he fall and always do good to people despite of their harsh treatments towards him and is very passionate in playing football until he becomes a successful sportsman known all over the world. That is what we call the power of love. It can motivate a person in such wonderful way we never expected.