Blind Side Analysis
The Blind Side
Behavioral Analysis
On the surface, the cinematic drama, The Blind Side (Hancock, 2009), tells the story of Michael Oher’s climb from meager indigence to professional football fame. The path he followed along his upward journey was long and arduous. Ultimately, his encounter and eventual life with the Touhy family, allowed stability, support, and encouragement into his upbringing. The Touhy’s enabled him to develop his own internal ambition and visualize his own successful future. The disparity between Michael’s social and cultural background and that of the Touhy family he became a member of, provided an intriguing backdrop to examine mood, personality, and behavioral themes in the context of the movie.
In order to fully understand and objectively interpret Michael Oher’s character throughout the film, one must first begin by understanding the cause-and-effect relationship that composes Michael’s overall disposition. Upon the backdrop of social and cultural problems, and through difficult experiences during his childhood and formative years, a shade of negative environmental conditions was apparent early on in Michael’s life. The depressing environmental conditions surrounding Michael from an early age had a huge influence on his overall mood and constantly dominated much of his melancholic emotional state. As Michael continued to endure his childhood, the compounding effect of his surroundings and discouragement was further engrained in his regular thought process and general personality traits. At the point in Michael’s life where The Blind Side begins, Michael’s personality, and the hardship that crafted his core-identity, have contributed largely to his overall outlook, attitude, and behavior. By understanding the sequential cause and effect of encounters over the course of Michael Oher’s life, it is possible to provide deeper analysis of him as an individual, as well as the evolution of his relationship with the
Behavioral Analysis
On the surface, the cinematic drama, The Blind Side (Hancock, 2009), tells the story of Michael Oher’s climb from meager indigence to professional football fame. The path he followed along his upward journey was long and arduous. Ultimately, his encounter and eventual life with the Touhy family, allowed stability, support, and encouragement into his upbringing. The Touhy’s enabled him to develop his own internal ambition and visualize his own successful future. The disparity between Michael’s social and cultural background and that of the Touhy family he became a member of, provided an intriguing backdrop to examine mood, personality, and behavioral themes in the context of the movie.
In order to fully understand and objectively interpret Michael Oher’s character throughout the film, one must first begin by understanding the cause-and-effect relationship that composes Michael’s overall disposition. Upon the backdrop of social and cultural problems, and through difficult experiences during his childhood and formative years, a shade of negative environmental conditions was apparent early on in Michael’s life. The depressing environmental conditions surrounding Michael from an early age had a huge influence on his overall mood and constantly dominated much of his melancholic emotional state. As Michael continued to endure his childhood, the compounding effect of his surroundings and discouragement was further engrained in his regular thought process and general personality traits. At the point in Michael’s life where The Blind Side begins, Michael’s personality, and the hardship that crafted his core-identity, have contributed largely to his overall outlook, attitude, and behavior. By understanding the sequential cause and effect of encounters over the course of Michael Oher’s life, it is possible to provide deeper analysis of him as an individual, as well as the evolution of his relationship with the