Given that The Blind Side star Sandra Bullock is giving Meryl Streep some unfortunate competition for her third Oscar, I decided to go see if she was really that good. She is. Her performance is decisive but contained at the same time, and the role is unlike anything we’ve ever seen her in, accustomed as we are to think of her as a comedy or action star.
That being said, she doesn’t even come close to Streep’s masterful work in Julie & Julia, and I really hope that my heroine will prevail.
The movie tells the story of the rise to football glory of a black, poor, lonely kid (an understated and very good Quinton Aaron) taken in by Bullock’s family when he has nowhere else to go. The story is true too, which always makes for a more compelling experience.
Besides Bullock’s own accolades, the movie itself garnered a Best Picture nomination, unarguably the beneficiary of the Academy’s doubling of that category’s recipients.
The Blind Side is a generally well made movie that knows how to pull at your heart strings and won’t disappoint. At the same time, it’s not that memorable and, were it not for Bullock’s performance, it would have faded much more quickly.
Grade: 7
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