My Sister's Keeper

One thing that I have mentioned before is that besides music, film is by far one of the things that i love and enjoy the most. I'll be posting later about the movies I do have and why i have them (my collection is over 400 at the moment) and i thought that it'd be nice to give my 2 cents for the movie that i saw last night My Sister's Keeper



Abigale Breslen and Cameron Diaz star in this film about a family that is struggling to help the oldest daughter, Kate's, fight with leukemia. Abigale plays the younger daughter, Anna, who was genetically designed to help her sister by donating her blood, bone-marrow, whatever was needed so that her older sister could survive. Anna is fed up with it all and decided that she wants to sue her parents so that she could have the right to decide that she has her own body. She meets up with a TV Attorney played by Alec Baldwin, and he takes the case. She loves her sister, but tells her family that she wants to decide for herself if she wants to donate parts of her body to her sister.

Throughout the film there are cut-scenes about the history of the family and how each member is effected by Kate and how they have to struggle together to keep her alive. A lot of ups and downs are witnessed and you truly start to feel the struggle that the family is suffering. Most everyone who sees this movie will find someone that they can connect with in the family, you sense their feelings of wanting control but that they can't have it and that the disease truly does effect everyone around it.

For me being a cancer survivor and not being at an age that i could fully understand what pain and suffering it effects the family this truly hit home with me. I understood more what my mom and dad went through, how everyone in my family tried to feel positive, but they all knew deep down that there was a big chance that i wouldn't make it. This film is all about relationships, those with family, friends, and trying to keep it all together while a big mess is in the middle of the floor that no one seems to know how to clean up. It helped me realize more how much those relationships can mean to others, and how life is something that we all need to cherish.

I never have set up a rating system on films that i have seen over the years, but i would put this one higher up there on my list of great films. For sure you need to be in the right mindset to see this film and those that won't take it with much maturity will for sure not get the message the filmmakers and author of the original book were trying to get across. There is a lot of quiet moments where the music just plays and you watch what is going on and it gives you time to ponder and think about a situation of someone suffering with cancer that you might know about, or some other hard experience that you are going through and how you are facing it. You truly see the struggle and the hope and the tears this family suffers.

I wouldn't mind seeing My Sister's Keeper again, but for sure i wouldnt have my mom with me just because i know it would bring back a lot of the pain and struggle she suffered through when i was going through my own fight.


This movie to me is the ultimate reason why i love film so much. There are films that have a sad ending and others that have a happy ending and the stories arent always comfortable for you to sit through. but there is purpose to that. They want you to think, they want you to realize the reality of things that happen in this world and that it doesnt always end up the way that you want it to. To kind of tie religion into this God sometimes makes us suffer because he loves us. Take the example of someone suffereing through cancer, they are poked and prodded, and are in a lot of pain, but they go through it because in the end it will make them better. That is how God is when he gives us our struggle and trials. He knows we will be better come the end of it, we learn more from it and can become stronger.

Its a lame metaphor but that is kind of what happens when we go through a hard movie. Saints and Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, and others aren't always easy to sit through, but then the message hits you harder, the concept they want you to understand hits you harder and affects you more. That is why i love movies, hopefully someday i might be able to bring about a message that will hit and change someone's life but i dont know when that will be.

So there is my 2 cents for My Sister's Keeper. I'll try to post more reviews on here for films i have seen and what i think about them. Have an awesome day!