My Sister’s Keeper

The movie started with a narration of a girl telling stories of the past and on how babies were being made accidentally or coincidentally. Then she related it on her own experience telling that she’s not just a coincidence unlike most babies do. She was born for a particular reason… and that girl was Anna Fitzgerald, the youngest daughter of Brian and Sara Fitzgerald. Way back before, Sara and Brian have already had a happy family with only two kids who were Jesse and Kate. But then later on they find out that their daughter Kate has leukemia and will no longer stay alive for long. The only way to save her life is for Brian and Sara to make a new baby again that is compatible with Kate’s blood, kidney and other organs. And so Anna was made. She was born for a particular reason…and that is to save her sister’s life. The Fitzgerald family has a very close-bonded relationship who loves each other so much. They make each and every day for Kate as light as possible to make things easy for her. When the time comes that Anna needs to donate her kidney to her sister, she talked to a lawyer to sue her parents for emancipation. She’s fighting for the reason that she has her own rights and decisions and that she doesn’t want to donate her kidney to her sister because when she donated it, she’ll suffer for the rest of her life. She will not be able to do what she wants to do. She will not be able to join the soccer team or the cheerleading. And that’s when the family started to broke the relationship because each of them takes their own side about Anna’s sudden decision. They didn’t understand why Anna did that knowing that she and her sister have a very close relationship and Anna knows that if she doesn’t give her kidney, her sister will die. Later on, they all find out that Anna’s sudden decision of not letting her parents donate her kidney was actually Kate’s decision because she doesn’t want her sister to be hurt anymore and suffer for the rest of her life just for her, same thing with the whole family. Kate had realized that her family had sacrificed so much just for her. Like for example her dad whom according to her, she took away his one and only love who is her mom because her mom’s attention is focused on taking care of her. Her mom sacrificed her marriage, her work as a lawyer and her life just for her. She also took the attention of her parents from Jesse, her brother, who needs more attention than she do and her little sister who has no choice but to give her organs to her just to save her life. Later on in the movie, Kate dies which was also her own wish because that’s what she wants thinking that she will not be able to survive anymore after the surgery if ever.
The movie was a very dramatic movie that will definitely wet your eyes. But then, just like any other movies that has the same case scenario of a person who has an illness, at the end they will die. I was a little disappointed because I was expecting another ending. What I was thinking while watching the movie was that when Anna finally decided to donate her kidney, she’s the one who’s going to die because of her operation and her sister will be saved. So that her family will realize how life was important in each and every one of them and that God can take their life away from them without knowing it. But then the good thing about the movie was that it showed how a family worked together as one even if there are so many problems coming to them. They stayed strong for each other and never gave up. It also showed the real meaning of love that was built within a family.