The true story of Baltimore Ravens football player Michael Oher. A homeless young African American is taken into the care of a wealthy family. Life in a new environment completely changes the fate of a closed teenager, helps to realize their potential. Enrolling at the University of Mississippi, he plays in the student team and learns the hidden side of the sports game, strategy and tactical analysis. Knowing that in the game it is often the brain that beats the muscles will soon help Michael get into the professional league.
Well, what can I say here, except that I expected much more. It seems that all the data of this genre in the film is. And a completely downtrodden hero, who becomes “pity” only at one glance. And the biographical background that formed the basis of the script. And many other things... But that doesn’t really matter.
Sometimes it is even annoying. For example, the very first football match Michael. Well, it's such a depressing sight. Maybe for Americans who understand the rules of the game and look like fun, but to me it looked like a ten-minute push-run. Would baseball or basketball be better than American sports? Which are more understandable and spectacular, but no, the director decided to play football. Of course, I may be saying something stupid, because this is a biographical film, but you could find someone else with a more familiar game for the world, not just for Americans. Even so, everything here is unnatural. The film reproduces a time when African Americans were treated much worse than they are now. And it's not reflected on the screen. There were probably racists all over America, and there weren’t any in this city. There were schoolchildren beating black people to death, and there was no such thing, not even a dirty word thrown at Michael. And then I wonder why he looks so clogged. And on the other side. African-American Quarter. In general, if you reason by normal logic, then you are to us, and we are to you. But no, when a white, pretty girl comes to their neighborhood, they, although they behave more rudely than whites to blacks, but, nevertheless, all this is very tense.
Of course, there are individuals who are pure in soul, like Michael, but not the whole city. Straight, a kind of ideal world, just like the village from the movie “Mysterious Forest”, only with the only difference that there was at least one villain, and here they are not at all.
And the writer Hancock, to put it mildly, had better jobs. For example, the script for Clint Eastwood’s film “The Perfect World”. Here was a really touching, and touching story for the soul, but there is no...
I didn’t like the way Bullock played either. Absolutely nothing special. Meryl Streep played her role in “Julie and Julia” much better, but the academics probably decided that that role is too comedic, and therefore such results. Why? That's too bad. In general, this is a film that clearly outlines the tasks. Press pity, elicit sympathy. They don’t want to show reality. That’s what kills me the most in these movies. And since such films no longer touch my soul, as lately I look at movies too pragmatically, and it rarely happens that a film can amaze me in this regard. Therefore, the attitude to this work is appropriate, but it has all the qualities to become a national hit. I'm pretty sure. Original