I just saw the movie blind side yesterday. I know it has been out for a couple of months now, but it really didn’t get my attention to watch it. So finally yesterday I felt like going to the movies, and when I got there Blind side was the only one playing at that time, and I did not fell like waiting two hours to watch another movie. Maybe it was fate to watch it, who knows? Anyways this movie is truly amazing if you have not seen it I recommending it tremendously. It has such a good meaning to it, and it touched my heart. For those that do not know. It is about an African-American teenager (Big Mike) who grew up not in the best situation. His mother was addicted to drugs and she had about 12 kids by different fathers. Big Mike was kind-hearted and non confrontational. One of his friends from the hood let him sleep on his couch and his friend’s father got Big Mike into a Christian School. The Christian High School he is attending was a majority all white school, and the teens at the school would look at him dirty because he was black and because he didn’t have he nicest clothes on. I felt so sorry for Big Mike at some points of the movies it even made me tear up. Most of the teachers did not want him there. Only his Biology teacher was nice and not racist.
One day Leigh, a mother of two children who also when to big mikes school, saw Mike walking in the pouring rain with only a shirt. In my eyes she is one of the most amazing women in the world. Leigh’s family is very wealthy because the own about 100 taco bells. Leigh being such a kind person asked Mike to stay in their home to sleep because he did not have nowhere else to go. Later in the movie Leigh and her husband Sean adopted Mike as their own son!! Leigh got some racial remakes by her friends because they did not like the fact that he was Black, but Leigh made them feel horrible by telling them in a classy way that what they are thinking is not the right thing. When the movie was almost over the NAACP got into Mikes life because they thought the only reason Leigh did all those nice things for him was because she wanted Mike to go to the University of Mississippi and play for their football team. Which i think that is completely bogus because they made Mike think those thought too, and because they are saying a white lady in the south cannot do anything nice for a Black teenager. In the end Mike realized that Leigh did this from the kindness of her heart and he when to play for Mississippi. This movie was a true story and now Big Mike plays for the Baltimore Ravens.
