The Blind Side

Two Films, Two Routes from Poverty

An African-American teenager, overweight and undereducated, a survivor of poverty and abuse, is rescued by the benevolent intervention of strangers. That, in a nutshell, is the plot of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” which has attracted fervent praise, as well as some controversy, since its debut in limited release two weeks ago.
The same sentence could sum up “The Blind Side,” based on a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis, which opened nationally on Friday. Michael Oher (sometimes called Big Mike), the young black man whose fate drives “The Blind Side,” is in many ways a male, Southern counterpart to Claireece Jones (usually called Precious), the Harlem 16-year-old whose struggle animates “Precious. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (10066 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 22 Novembre 2009