Spoiler Alert!: The ending is given away in this review.My Sister's Keeper is about a young girl named Anna (Abigail Breslin) who decides to persue medical emancipation from her parents so that they won't use her body to help save her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) who is dying from cancer.
Obviously, this is a weepie movie, and only someone with a heart of stone could watch this and not feel anything for this family, which struggles not only with death but with neglect. The characters also seem far more kind and calm than anyone could reasonably expect them to be, given the circumstances.
Parts of the movie are poorly concieved. For instance, the early part of the film allows each character a monologue, and after the second one they start to feel like the screenwriter is incapable of more subltly and creatively introducting its characters. The movie also moves around in time, but because there are few points of reference, it's hard to tell where the narrative is at times, highlighting how contrived much of the action.
What is most disappointing in this movie is the attempt at romance. As Kate begins chemotherapy, she meets another cancer patient, Taylor (Thomas Dekker), and they fall in love. After Taylor dies, Kate apparently loses all the will to live, because her next move in the story is to facilitate her own death by manipulating her sister to manipulate her brother to manipulate her Mom. After all her fighting to stay alive, a boy she barely knows becomes the factor that determines how she lives or not? This is either incredibly poor motivation or a reminder of how pathetic heterosexual girls become within our society.
Obviously, this is a weepie movie, and only someone with a heart of stone could watch this and not feel anything for this family, which struggles not only with death but with neglect. The characters also seem far more kind and calm than anyone could reasonably expect them to be, given the circumstances.
Parts of the movie are poorly concieved. For instance, the early part of the film allows each character a monologue, and after the second one they start to feel like the screenwriter is incapable of more subltly and creatively introducting its characters. The movie also moves around in time, but because there are few points of reference, it's hard to tell where the narrative is at times, highlighting how contrived much of the action.
What is most disappointing in this movie is the attempt at romance. As Kate begins chemotherapy, she meets another cancer patient, Taylor (Thomas Dekker), and they fall in love. After Taylor dies, Kate apparently loses all the will to live, because her next move in the story is to facilitate her own death by manipulating her sister to manipulate her brother to manipulate her Mom. After all her fighting to stay alive, a boy she barely knows becomes the factor that determines how she lives or not? This is either incredibly poor motivation or a reminder of how pathetic heterosexual girls become within our society.
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