Guest blogger: Melanie 2

The film My Sisters Keeper is a film about family and what a family goes through when one family member is sick with cancer. In the film the oldest daughter in the family gets leukemia when she is very young. The oldest daughter (Kate) needs a person who has the same exact matches as her for genetics and blood type to help her. The mother Sara, played by Cameron Diaz, and the father Brian, played by Jason Patric, decide to have another child, but instead of having her normal where they have the doctor genetically match the child to Kate artificially. By doing so they got Anna, played by Abigail Breslin. All her life Anna has things taken from her such as bone marrow and cells to give to Kate. The brother Jesse, played by Evan Ellingson, doesn’t show up much in the movie but when he does it is very brief. Since Kate got cancer when she was a toddler all of Sara and Brian’s attention has been all on her. Brian is kind of just ignored and not payed any attention to. He seems to get into trouble and do things that are not exactly right to get his parents attention. When it comes time for Kate to need a new kidney fast because hers are failing, Anna is the only match that is safe, but Anna doesn’t want to give away her kidney and she sues her parents for the right to her own body so she no longer has to have things taken from her. Abigail Breslin does an amazing job at portraying her character Anna. She really brings out the characteristics of the character for you to understand why she doesn’t want to have things taken from her body anymore. Cameron Diaz also does an amazing job at portraying her character. She shows how a mother loves her children and will do anything to keep them from danger and save their lives. The theme of this movie is that fight for as long as you can but at some point you have to give in to life and accept things the way they are. “My Sisters Keeper takes on a very tough subject and has, in Anna and Kate, to very tough characters played by strong actresses, but ultimately it is too soft, too easy, and it dissolves like a tear soaked tissue” (A. O. Scott). I agree with the critic’s opinion because the film takes on the subject on cancer, which in some peoples view, can be a difficult subject. There is so much to portray in a person’s life that has cancer. I also disagree with the critic when he said “but ultimately it is too soft, too easy, and it dissolves like a tear soaked tissue” because I believe that the film is not too soft on the subject that they portray everything good when it comes to the subject of cancer, and that the film is not too easy because it is never easy dealing with something so major that is threatening a person’s life. You will not be wasting your time or money on this film because it is a good story and it teaches you little life lessons.