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The Blind Side - A Rare Masterpiece Amid Action Films Dominating the Movie Scenes
These days, like the rest, films are compartmentalized. We have become a society that functions and performs based totally on focus group consultations, random samplings, and demographics. Gone were the times when films were produced to tell a good story, or feature a great actor or actress in a part that moved the heart. Maybe it is due to the enormous amounts of money spent on a film, with the price of actor's costs as one of the most serious expense. But if not for the known actor, perhaps the film would not sell.

It is a chicken and the egg scenario of who is to blame for the rocketing price of films and the deterioration of the standard of the movie narrative. We go back to compartmentalizing into 2 types of films : the ones that make the super bucks and the ones that don't . And for the ones that want to make the mega bucks, they are further subdivided into groups : horror/slasher, action, and comedy. Rarely have we got drama films that do make the hundred million mark at the box office. But because of the relatively low budget of the drama films, they do not have to. These are the films that are praised by the critics and regularly are given the Oscar nods. These are the movies that couples like to watch, goaded particularly by the female to stimulate the mind of an often unresponsive partner. These are narratives that teach a life lesson to us all, the ones that you would want to collect in your DVD selection. And if we are lucky, we receive a film that has got a bit of action, a bit of drama, a little bit of reality, a little bit of comedy, and a lot of things that makes one think about life.

We have one this year which has all of the above.
The Blind Side is a film based mostly on a true story about a young man given a second chance in life through the intercession of a female mentor, who is as headstrong and bullish about how life should be lived and how values should be inculcated. Through the game of football, this young man is given a chance to show his excellent talent for the game and through his mentor, his adopted mom, you might say, this young man learns how to live life. This film won for its lead actress, Sandra Bullock, her first academy award on her first nomination.

Perhaps it is about time to see the film and for the first time, enjoy a great film and learn from it also.