Advantages: emotional,one to be seen with family,decent performances Disadvantages: a bit slow and sad
Mysister keeper is director Nick Cassavetes' latest offering after his critically acclaimed Alpha Dog and hugely popular The Notebook. Nick sticks to his strength-unfolding an emotional drama on screen. If notebook was for lovers,this one is certainly for the families(which is a rarity in today's hollywood)
MySister's keeper is a story of a family of 5.The film starts with Anna(Abigail Breslin) narrating her journey into this world,letting us know that she was genetically engineered so that her blood cells can be used to treat her elder sister who suffered from leukemia-a form of cancer.
The audience is at a fix when young Anna goes to a lawyer to file a case against her parents accusing them of using her body parts against her own will to save her sister.The film essentially deals with Kate's fight with cancer and how it affects ...
Advantages: Good central performances, feel-good factor. Disadvantages: Bit slow in places.
One thing you know you?re going to get with Jodi Picoult is a thought-provoking moral dilemma. In this case, the plot revolves around sisters, the younger of which, Anna, played by Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine ? wow!, Nim?s Island ? yuk!), has been conceived by ivf to provide a medical bank of spare parts for her older sister, Kate, played by Sofia Vassilieva (outstanding performance), who suffers from cancer. This has meant that Anna?s life has been totally dictated by Kate?s needs, and she has never been able to do things she wanted. When, eventually, Kate suffers kidney failure, her mother (Cameron Diaz, doing much better in the role than I would have expected) sets everything up for Anna to donate her kidney. However, Anna refuses and seeks out a top lawyer (Alec Baldwin, nice competent turn), who agrees to work pro ...
Advantages: An emotional and beautifully written story that you won't be able to put down Disadvantages: Brings you to tears
of her own life and imagine how different things would be if she wasn't constantly needed by her sister and parents. So she finally makes the difficult decision to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.
~ My opinion ~
The first time I picked this book up off the shelves in a shop and read the blurb, I thought that I could not read it as it just sounded like it was a book made to make you cry. But lately I've gotten quite into the more real life and emotional books and, with the film of MySister's Keeper coming out at the cinema soon, I decided to eventually give it a try.
The book is written from the points of view of all the main characters in story, with a different character for each chapter. This is a brilliant way of giving us an insight into each character's thoughts and feelings and we get each person's own ...
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