Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: Most babies are accidents. Not me. I was engineered. Born to save my sister's life. (My Sister's Keeper)
Some movies are total masala, they're made to entertain and mint money. Some are path breaking, they start a revolution. And some it seems are made only for the critics. This movie can't be categorized in any of these. Yet, it is better than any movie of it's genre i've ever seen!
My Sister's Keeper does strike a chord. It lands us into a strange situation where nobody seems to be wrong, though everybody's point of view is completely opposite to each other. It raises some important issues regarding euthanasia, without directly addressing it. It's a story of a battle (legal battle!) between a mother, who would go to any extent to save her diseased girl and a sister who is a test-tube baby and is serving as body parts to the diseased girl, who after 11 years of serving as the life-saver to her sister is tired of countless needles and operations.
What i loved the most about this movie were the characters, which though sounding unreal are so realistically displayed on screen. Sara (Cameron Diaz), a mother who even goes to the extent of shaving her head, in pursuit of understanding her child's pains. Anna (Abigail Breslin), whose sister means her world to her, but what about her own world? But the best was Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), the diseased girl, who tired of trying to make her mother realize that she is tired of living. That she wants her sister to live a happy and peaceful life. The movie also uses different narrators, which at first sounds too melodramatic, but at the ends make us realize why everybody's point of view is as important as the protagonist's.
All in all, its a must watch. 9.5/10!
