Big Mike's Life

BIG MIKE’S LIFE

The Blind Side Movie it's a very touching movie based on real life events which tells the life and history of Michael Oher or Big Mike. This teenager was born Memphis, Tennessee, one of twelve children of Michael Jerome Williams and Denise Oher. His mother was addicted to crack cocaine since her pregnancy with him. As a result, he received little constructive attention during his formative years. He repeated both first and second grades, and attended eleven different schools during his first nine years as a student. He also alternated between time spent in various foster homes and periods of homelessness, before he was sixteen years old.

Big Mike (Quinton Aaron) survives and is virtually only one homeless when Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) finds out in the street. Upon hearing that the boy is a classmate of her daughter, Leigh Anne insists that Michael, who wears shorts and T-shirt in the depths of winter; out of the streets. Without hesitating, invites him to spend the night at her home. What begins as a gesture of generosity becomes something else when Michael becomes part of the Tuohy family even though its origins are very different.

She welcomes Big Mike in her home giving him the opportunity to know what a real family is, sharing with them all and even embrace and adopt him as family member, give him the best opportunities for study. The boy with the amount of problems he had development in the instinct of protection to the family which leads him to be the best blocker or quarter back in football.

When the boy is about to go to college principals of the top universities in USA want to have as a player. Michael had an amazing talent for playing football resulting in one of the stars of the NFL (National Football League)

It is a beautiful and emotive film that demonstrates the importance of living in family and helps others regardless of skin color or socioeconomic status.