Live Life Team
Considering that Sandra Bullock has swept all major acting awards this season, everyone predicts that she’ll win this year’s Academy Award for Best Actress. In “The Blind Side”, Bullock plays Leigh Anne Tuohy, a suburban wife and mother of two. She becomes a foster mother to a teenage African-American boy who overcomes his impoverished childhood to play professional football.
When considering the roles that have won Academy Awards in the past few years, it’s hard to think anyone could win an award for playing such an ordinary character. Where is the debilitating disease, the over-the-top musical numbers and the serial killings, or drug addiction, which usually make a film worthy of an award,
Bullock’s character is involved in none of these scenarios and doesn’t need to be because her character is dynamic enough. She drives her foster son to his former ghetto neighbourhood in a luxury sedan and tells drug dealers to stay right away from her son.
My favourite scene is when she first meets Oher who is walking in the rain on a cold night, and she offers him a lift. She doesn’t introduce herself or even say hello and shows neither compassion nor sympathy. She tells him to get into the car, as if he’d be a fool not to. This is not the typical made-for-television dialogue. It’s better than that and by the end of the film, I completely forgot I was watching Bullock, which in my opinion puts her performance on a par with any of the other female leads of the past decade.
