The Blind Side Interpersonal Relationships

In the movie “The Blind Side”, is a Black African American teenager who was homeless and came from a rough childhood growing up. Michael “ Big Mike” was taken in by this wonderful family, “The Tuohy’s”. While staying with the Tuohy’s family, Big Mike had a different aspect in this life. During the whole movie Big Mike becomes successful, and a professional football player with the help of the Tuohy’s. Until this day Michael is playing for the Carolina Panthers. In this paper, I will use the social penetration theory, hurtful messages,and the dialectical model of relationship development to show the development of interpersonal relationships between Big Mike and the Tuohy’s Family.
People increase their self-disclosure, through …show more content…
Originally the topics they would talk about would be his life, his childhood.From the beginning, Big Mike didn’t want Leigh Ann inside his personal life, to see his struggles, having little communication.For one thing when Leigh Ann and her family were driving home they spotted Michael outside in the freezing cold with no jacket or pants on. Asking him where he was going, if he had a place to stay and he was Michael was invited to eat a home cooked food for thanksgiving, something he never experienced, ever since his horrible childhood going to one foster home to another. The more he stayed in the house with the Tuohy’s the communication …show more content…
So she asked Michael if his mother or grandparents were around to help him/give him guidance, he didn’t budge. The social penetration theory is maintained in this situation because Michael had lots of struggles throughout the movie now he became more familiar and trusting of one another..Like sharing more disclosure to Leigh Ann like she was his birth mother. Additionally, the primary dialectical tensions that exist in the movie was expressive/privacy which is based on people being open to each other, but with a sense of privacy.In detail,Michael was driven to his house to get clothes in the projects with Leigh Ann, who was told his mother lived there. Got to the house, but the mother wasn’t there and had an eviction note on the door, but didn’t share that information with Leigh Ann. Above all, during the movie, Michael had to pass his classes with honors and some of the teachers were kind of teasing him, while they should help him get better because he never had that type of education before. This is showing the hurtful theory which is based on when it can be intentional or unintentional and the more regularly they interact and hurt one another.While working hard Michael proves the