The blind side is adapted from the real experience of Michael Och, a star player in the first round of the NFL (National Football League) last year and currently playing for the Baltimo Ravens. I also saw their family at the just-concluded Oscars. Figure.
However, the real protagonist of The blind side is not Michael Och, but his adoptive mother: Leigh Anne.
Auch, my age, was born in a poor and chaotic black family. His father was murdered after high school because his mother was smoking cocaine. Since childhood, Auch was forced to separate from his parents and siblings. Unattended Auch changed 11 schools and entered high school with a GPA of 0.6. Because of his excellent physical condition, Auch transferred to a private high school under the recommendation of his neighbors and the high school rugby coach.
After entering high school, the homeless Big Mike (Ohe) had only one piece of clothing. After the school gymnasium competition, he collected leftover coke popcorn for food and slept in the public laundry room.
The story of The Blind side began when Big Mike was on his way to the gym to escape the cold. Leigh Anne couldn't bear the trembling back of Ohese, and took Ohe home.
The misery that Big Mike endured silently touched Leigh Anne, prompting her to take risks and doubts to accept Auch as a member of this wealthy upper-class white family. With the help of Leigh Anne’s family, Auch started to learn rugby from the beginning and became a high-profile star player in the high school league. He followed Leigh Anne’s tutor to study for him, and got a 2.56 GPA when he graduated from high school. Entering the cultural standards for players in the NCAA Division I, has won invitations to enter many five-star schools, including the national champion Louisiana State University. After a brutal review that almost broke the family relationship between Auch and Leigh Anne's family, Big Mike finally chose the University of Mississippi, the alma mater of the Leigh Annes, and eventually entered the NFL as a rookie in the first round.
Such a true main theme film impressed the Oscar judges and countless audiences. It not only won the box office of 250 million US dollars in North America, but also allowed the heroine actor Sandra Bullock to sweep this year’s Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild. Award, American Film Critics Award, and finally stood on the podium for Best Actress Oscar on Women’s Day.
Apart from these official introductions, I would rather share Sandra Bullock’s acceptance speech at the Oscars:
"I would like to thank what this film is about for me, which are the moms that take care of the babies and the children, no matter where they come from. ……There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. ”
I think these two acceptance speeches have perfectly explained everything that The blind side wants to express.
The literal translation of "The blind side" is "blind spot". I only know that it is in a football game that is out of the line of sight of the player, such as the left hand side of the quarterback preparing to pass the ball.
A child like Michael Och who has been struggling for survival and silently enduring the tyranny of fate will never have the opportunity to recognize his talents in his life; a wealthy middle class like Leigh Anne may not be aware of poverty and suffering in his life. For them, this is the blind spot of fate.
When Leigh Anne's momentary movement and kind deeds completely changed Big Mike's life and rescued him from the blind spot of fate, she also transcended the blind spot of love as a mother.
People often praise the greatness of maternal love because she devoted herself to the results regardless of the results. However, under the traditional Chinese concept of clan, maternal love is often narrow, because it is the blind spot of maternal love to be limited to one's own children.
If you look at The blind side on this basis, Leigh Anne is indeed a great mother-she helped Michael Auch find her blind spot, she did her best to pull Auch out of the dark and desperate life, she ignored The doubts of friends and relatives accepted Auch as a member of the family. She unreservedly loved Auch in a way unique to her mother, including Auch’s special childhood and an identity incompatible with the white middle class, which gave Auch a brand new Life, and more important than this: family.
And family members are those who do not give up accepting us because of blood, gender, age, race, religion, class, skin color, rich or poor, IQ, disease, sexual orientation, and all objective existence. They are those who love us because of me. People.
There is never a blind spot in the eyes of the family.
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