The Blind Side Christian Review
I didn’t know this movie was Christian before I watched it.
This movie is quite real to me. Afterall, it is based on a true story.
I rarely see a movie that shows what love of God is in such a real way. When you have a real testimony, no one can argue with that.
I think this movie also proves one thing—God wants to prosper his people. If you are trapped in a cycle of proverty, it is very hard to get out. This movie truly shows that proverty isn’t a blessing, and if you want to help the poor, you have to be blessed yourself, unless you can perform miracles like the apostles do. I myself believe that proverty is mainly a mindset. A mindset of proverty wouldn’t allow God’s blessing to come in. Prosperity is also a mindset. If you want to prosper, you need to hang out with prosperous people, who can show you how they live and how they do thing.
Michael was blessed with these things, when he was found by the Tuohy’s family.
Poverty, addiction, abuses, and immorality tend to come together. When you have one, it is easy to have the others. Michael Oher knew these ingredients well, as he was born out of wedlock, taken by child protection service, and tossed from foster home to foster home. People he saw everyday were gangs and drug users. He ran away from foster home all the time, until he found his dad’s friend, who helped him enrolled into a Christian school. Most kids in that school are from the good side of the town, well-to-do families, and they are mostly white.
This huge 17 years old found himself in a environment that he didn’t seem to fit well in. He was again homeless when the man who took care of him had to let him go, because the wife wouldn’t let him stay. They were black too. So in this real story the black wouldn’t help the black. It’s very politically incorrect, but if it’s based on true story then I like it. Again no one can accuse anything since it did happen.
Michael had very bad academic record from the past, and classroom learning was foreign to him. In time, however, one by one the teachers saw potential in Michael, and at the same time, a Christian lady, Leigh Anne Tuohy, found out about the situation of Michael, and offered him to stay at her home for a night. Let me tell you Michael was already huge at age 17, but she let him in, and her own children were small and tender, with her own daughter being an attractive teenage girl. Her husband was also small compared with Michael. Without knowing much about Michael, this was an act of courage and selfless love.
I found it rare that a boy with his past was so mellow. He was not aggressive to anyone. It would take a lot to get him angry. This made the story possible. I don’t think anyone would let him into the home if he was violent.
Soon, the Leigh’s family gradually warmed up to Michael, as he stayed longer, and they finally adopted him. This time Michael didn’t run, as he could feel that they genuinely loved him.
Michael knew nothing about this upper class living, and the family knew nothing about the world that Michael came from. They bought Michael a truck as a present! I think this is really a foreign concept to those of us who are not so prosperous/generous. Leigh never even stepped into the poor side of the town before, until she met Michael and had to bring him back there to run a few errands.
They did everything they could to help Michael get up on his feets, and more. Michael inherited the family’s athletic spirit, and became an athlete. He was born with a body that was advantagous for playing football, but without help from the family, he couldn’t have made it.
Can you see what I am trying to say? This family didn’t just provide for Michael, but they converted him into their way of living. To escape from poverty, it takes a village. A poor village will raise kids with poor mindset, but a rich village… Make sense?
At the end of the movie, it was shown that many kids who are like Michael were not so fortunate. The narration asked the question—would their life be as tragic if some people would find and love them?
Not all rich people are good, but this family was blessed and prompted by God to help Michael.
The Tuohy couple wrote a book, “In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving”, and the title is very telling.
To this day, God still blesses his people materialistically, just like he did to Abraham and other characters from the Old Testament.
