Section 1 – Critical Analysis – Chapter 8
The Blind Side is a feel-good movie starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron as the main characters. This movie brings together a family and a teenage boy from two very different backgrounds that gain a mutual love for each other. The movie demonstrates struggles and victories in the differences of culture and communication. The bigger part of the story shares the conflict types and management styles of the characters crossing cultural lines to become a family. We can see comparisons to a difference in culture involving rich and poor, white and black. The Tuohy’s are a rich, southern, white family that are very direct with communication in their approach to life. Michael Orr is a black teenager from a very lower class black neighborhood who uses a more indirect style of communication with pacifism in his approach to life. Surprisingly the racial conflict portrayed in the movie was not between Michael and the Tuohy’s but more in the interactions with their social circles. Facework was used in both contexts, of individualist societies (social groups) who tend to “be more concerned with saving their own …show more content…
One says to the other “they aren’t even locked up; white people are crazy.” This begins the story of a white southern family and an African America teenage boy as they define intercultural communication for us. Our book says, “intercultural communication occurs when people of different cultural backgrounds interact.” (p.31) To give you a quick synopsis, the white southern family is represented by a strong Christian family the Tuohy’s, husband, Sean, wife Leigh Ann, daughter Collins and son Sean Jr. (SJ). The African American teenager, Michael, an almost adult young man, is for the most part homeless. From this point forward, I will refer to them only by names when referencing their
The Blind Side is a feel-good movie starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron as the main characters. This movie brings together a family and a teenage boy from two very different backgrounds that gain a mutual love for each other. The movie demonstrates struggles and victories in the differences of culture and communication. The bigger part of the story shares the conflict types and management styles of the characters crossing cultural lines to become a family. We can see comparisons to a difference in culture involving rich and poor, white and black. The Tuohy’s are a rich, southern, white family that are very direct with communication in their approach to life. Michael Orr is a black teenager from a very lower class black neighborhood who uses a more indirect style of communication with pacifism in his approach to life. Surprisingly the racial conflict portrayed in the movie was not between Michael and the Tuohy’s but more in the interactions with their social circles. Facework was used in both contexts, of individualist societies (social groups) who tend to “be more concerned with saving their own …show more content…
One says to the other “they aren’t even locked up; white people are crazy.” This begins the story of a white southern family and an African America teenage boy as they define intercultural communication for us. Our book says, “intercultural communication occurs when people of different cultural backgrounds interact.” (p.31) To give you a quick synopsis, the white southern family is represented by a strong Christian family the Tuohy’s, husband, Sean, wife Leigh Ann, daughter Collins and son Sean Jr. (SJ). The African American teenager, Michael, an almost adult young man, is for the most part homeless. From this point forward, I will refer to them only by names when referencing their