Blinded by mediocrity

19.11.09

He doesn’t lift anything and proves to be some sort of laconic, nurturing teddy give birth to. Rarely is one shown anything but undiscovered potential in Oher. The man is treated like a saint and a football savant whose only problems are created by the abominable upbringing he had. His occasional bursts of violence either come when his kindred is threatened or on the football field where they are encouraged.

While the obligatory montages of Oher slowly becoming a force on the field with heavy coaxing from Touhy are familiarly comforting, the filmmakers do cheat a bit. For example, Oher had played a year of football in a visible school before he had ever been goaded by Touhy’s unflinching commands to get out there and shelter his quarterback, a fact conveniently ignored. 

Another consanguineous problem in the neat linearity Hancock establishes is that for someone who is always said to be secretly

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