My Sisters Keeper- Rating ✰✰✰✰
Based on a true story, this film explains how a family struggle to come to terms with their young daughter’s cancer. It is a very sad film yet a very good film. A young girl named Katy has been battling with cancer all her life and her parents have done everything they can in order to save her life. They even had a 'genetically designed baby' that would in effect be a 'donor baby' to save Katie’s life. However when this baby is 11 and is no longer a baby, she decides that she no longer wants to have her body parts taken out of her to donate to her sister. So when they ask her to donate her kidney to her sister, she refuses. She makes sure that they won’t trick her into donating her body parts like they did when she was younger by employing a top lawyer to take her parents to court to put a law suite against them for the rights to her own body.
The films plot has been made incredibly clear by the producers’ as they used a multistrand narrative between the characters in the opening sequence. The opening sequence has every man character narrating to the audience from a first person point of view about how Kate’s cancer affects them personally.
If you haven’t already then i would say yep! Get the tissues out! This film is a real tearjerker!
However what i do like about the film is that is includes a lot of flashbacks into Kate’s life and shows what she has managed to do despite her cancer. It shows that she did get to have some sort of a normal teenage life when she gets her first boyfriend Taylor. The love story between Taylor and Katie is one of the best parts of the film.
After the explanation through the flashbacks of a small part of Kate’s life so far; at first sight you would think that the sister refusing to donate her kidney to the dying girl, is just plain selfish!
However don’t take everything at face value during this film, everything is not as it seems!
The only problem with the film is that it can get repetitive with them always arguing over the issue of whether Ana (the younger sister), will donate the kidney or not. The film tells some of Kate’s life; however it mainly focuses on Ana's law suit. I felt it should have concentrated more on Kate’s story than the family’s arguments. i would have liked to have seen more of her love story with Taylor and i would have liked to have known how she coped with normal things like school etc. Also was she jealous of her little sister being healthy? I felt the film didn’t explore that category well enough.
A good film, emotional. It makes us realise how lucky we are!
Based on a true story, this film explains how a family struggle to come to terms with their young daughter’s cancer. It is a very sad film yet a very good film. A young girl named Katy has been battling with cancer all her life and her parents have done everything they can in order to save her life. They even had a 'genetically designed baby' that would in effect be a 'donor baby' to save Katie’s life. However when this baby is 11 and is no longer a baby, she decides that she no longer wants to have her body parts taken out of her to donate to her sister. So when they ask her to donate her kidney to her sister, she refuses. She makes sure that they won’t trick her into donating her body parts like they did when she was younger by employing a top lawyer to take her parents to court to put a law suite against them for the rights to her own body.
The films plot has been made incredibly clear by the producers’ as they used a multistrand narrative between the characters in the opening sequence. The opening sequence has every man character narrating to the audience from a first person point of view about how Kate’s cancer affects them personally.
If you haven’t already then i would say yep! Get the tissues out! This film is a real tearjerker!
However what i do like about the film is that is includes a lot of flashbacks into Kate’s life and shows what she has managed to do despite her cancer. It shows that she did get to have some sort of a normal teenage life when she gets her first boyfriend Taylor. The love story between Taylor and Katie is one of the best parts of the film.
After the explanation through the flashbacks of a small part of Kate’s life so far; at first sight you would think that the sister refusing to donate her kidney to the dying girl, is just plain selfish!
However don’t take everything at face value during this film, everything is not as it seems!
The only problem with the film is that it can get repetitive with them always arguing over the issue of whether Ana (the younger sister), will donate the kidney or not. The film tells some of Kate’s life; however it mainly focuses on Ana's law suit. I felt it should have concentrated more on Kate’s story than the family’s arguments. i would have liked to have seen more of her love story with Taylor and i would have liked to have known how she coped with normal things like school etc. Also was she jealous of her little sister being healthy? I felt the film didn’t explore that category well enough.
A good film, emotional. It makes us realise how lucky we are!
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