Review of The Blind Side (2009) by Ian H — 04 Jul 2013
Abandons the chisel that Michael Lewis to tell a really nuanced story that deals with a lot of racial and socioeconomic/sociopolitical issues in favor of John Lee Hancock's jackhammer which, to be fair works well enough at painting a broad, cliched, family friendly story about triumph and just plain dumb luck until it contrasts the virtuous white Christian family with the black people in the hood in a way that was basically a compounding of racial stereotypes.
The thing is, a director with more tact (or any tact, for that matter) could have taken what is really a pretty great, fascinating story about how the evolution of professional football helped an absolutely helpless kid crawl out of the ghetto and into a multi-million dollar NFL contract and showing what can happen when people do good things and really mean it (whether or not they're doing it because they're evangelical Christians is beside the point).
This review of The Blind Side (2009) was written by Ian H on 04 Jul 2013.
The Blind Side has generally received positive reviews.
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