Naurah's cloud: My Sister's Keeper

January 25, 2016 | 2 Cloud(s)

My Sister's Keeper

In the hostel at night, my batches were able to watch television. Watching the chosen film by Mrs Bazla for an essay assignment on the blog. For the first film, the title is My Sister’s Keeper. My Sister’s Keeper is a 2009 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Alec Baldwin.

Actually, the story is from a novel and I read it when I was 12 years old. The story is very different between the novel and the film.

However, it doesn’t matter.

The question: Is it the mother does justice to all her children?

In my opinion, the mother does not do justice to all her children because the mother only thinks about Kate's life. The story highlights the mother's willingness to do anything to keep Kate alive. Such as forcing Anna to donate her kidney to Kate without thinking about Anna's health effects after the surgery.

Besides that, Jesse Anna and Kate’s brother look alone because all his family is focused on Kate. Nevertheless, in the middle of the story showed that his father, Brian cares about Jesse.

This is the storyline:

At the beginning of the story, it introduces Anna Fitzgerald as a genetic match for her older sister, Kate, who suffers from leukaemia; she is compatible to donate organs, blood, and tissue to keep her sister alive. Her family members are introduced one by one, and each tells about how Kate's illness has affected them personally.

When Kate turns 17, she goes into renal failure. Thirteen-year-old Anna knows that she will be forced by her parents to donate a kidney. In addition, this time Anna did not want to proceed with the request of her parents to donate her kidney to Kate.

For the rights to her own body, she sues her parents for medical emancipation helped by Attorney Campbell Alexander as her guardian suing for partial termination of parental rights. It is later learned he agreed to take the case not for the infamy, but because he suffers from epilepsy, and is genuinely sympathetic to her.

Sara, the mother who leads an obsessive campaign to keep Kate alive, is indignant at Anna's decision when she receives the notice of court proceedings.

The film story with flashbacks that Kate and Anna's close relationship, as well as how Kate's illness has affected her siblings' lives and their relationships. In a flashback, Kate also meets a fellow cancer patient, Taylor Ambrose whom she begins dating. A few days later, Kate learns that Taylor has died. A miserable Kate later attempts suicide by overdosing on painkillers, but Anna stops her.

Kate makes a request to go to the beach one last time, and Brian obtains permission and Dr. Chance's advice to do so. However, Sara overreacts and urges that Kate be returned to the hospital immediately. Brian angrily ignores Sara's act. At the beach, Sara shows up, where they enjoy one final family outing.

At the court during the hearing, Anna and Kate's brother, Jesse, reveal that Kate not wanting to live any longer, and knowing Sara would be, too narrow-minded to listen to her, had gently persuaded Anna to refuse to donate her kidney. Sara is displeased and attempts to argue, but is finally forced by both Jesse and Brian to realize that Kate had been trying to tell her this for some time.

Kate dies while sleeping at the hospital with her mother by her side. After Kate's death, Campbell brings the court decision Anna won the case. The family moved on with their lives, but every year on Kate's birthday, they went to Montana, which was her favourite place in the world.

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January 25, 2016 | 2 Cloud(s)

My Sister's Keeper

Actually, the story is from a novel and I read it when I was 12 years old. The story is very different between the novel and the film.

However, it doesn’t matter.

The question: Is it the mother does justice to all her children?

Besides that, Jesse Anna and Kate’s brother look alone because all his family is focused on Kate. Nevertheless, in the middle of the story showed that his father, Brian cares about Jesse.

This is the storyline:

Sara, the mother who leads an obsessive campaign to keep Kate alive, is indignant at Anna's decision when she receives the notice of court proceedings.

2 Comments:

Ms Bazla' said...

I've never read the book before. What is the differrence between the book and the film?

Nuril Naurah said...

i'm not remember at all..but what i can said in the novel Anna dies after being left brain dead from a car accident, and her usable organs are recovered with Campbell's permission, including the kidney for Kate.