Each character in the film, The Blind Side, responds to evil differently. Michael Oher responds to evil by blocking it out completely until it eventually hits him in the face. In the film flashes of the past are shown in Michael’s memory but only small ones throughout the film until one day when dining out. The Tuohys are dining out for the night but Michael has other plans, after seeing someone he recognises he walks in the wrong direction until he completely sees the person. When realising it is his brother, who he has not seen in years, he walks straight into the restaurant where his brother is serving customers. Here the two brothers have a moment of reconnecting, where they look at each other for a moment and then breaking down hugging and crying over the fact that they were separated when the social workers took them away when they were only little children. Whereas Leigh Anne responds to evil by looking it in the eye and telling it to go away and find something else to torture. This is shown when Leigh Anne takes Michael in because she sees that evil has taken over his life and he is in need of somewhere that is good. When Michael goes back to Hurt Village with Leigh Anne to go see his mother, he is verbally abused by his old gang. He ignores them. Later in the movie, after Leigh Anne legally adopts Michael and he becomes the football superstar, after he talked by an investigator he leaves and Leigh Anne tries to find him. She travels down to Hurt Village where the gang once again insults Michael, but this time, to Leigh Anne’s face. Something in her just explodes and she backfires, protecting Michael.
“You insult my son, you insult me.” – Leigh Anne Tuohy
The Blind Side: Michael Oher 