With the firefighter dad busy at work and rarely at home, mum quit her job as a lawyer to devote herself to caring for Kate. The focus of the family was all on Kate: in order to prolong Kate's life, they deliberately "created" a young daughter Anna who matched Kate's antigen through test-tube babies to provide Kate with "necessities" for life. The family's son, Jesse, has a language barrier, and his parents have no time to take care of it. Jesse was sent to a special education school when he was a child, and has never been given due attention at home.
However, the long-term torture of the illness, coupled with the death of her boyfriend who was sympathetic to the same illness, made Kate already lost her enthusiasm for life. When her mother insisted on letting her sister Anna donate her kidney to help Kate continue her life, Kate, who wanted to die, persuaded her sister Anna to file a lawsuit in court, accusing her mother of abusing her power and using Anna's body at will.
The lawsuit was won, and the mother "give in" and finally respected Kate's wishes and accepted Kate's death.
Behind this indictment is a story about "listening".
The "dictator" mom insists on continuing Anna's life. This obsession made her unable to listen to anyone persuading her to give up, such as aunt Harley's advice, such as Anna's defense at the dinner table, and her brother Jesse's speech barrier, perhaps the most direct manifestation of his deprivation of the right to speak.
Where on earth can this family communicate on an equal footing? Under what circumstances can a child's words be heard? This final conversation takes place in the courtroom: in order for mothers to "listen" to their children, a third party is needed, a courtroom that understands what children are going through - the judge just came out of the pain of losing her daughter , she knew the fear that death brought people; and the lawyer suffered from epilepsy and suffered from uncontrolled physical pain, which made him understand Anna's feelings deeply.
This is also a story about "love".
Mom's love is too selfish, and other family members are accommodating her. It is under this kind of "hegemony" that although the family seems to be full of warmth and under the dark cloud of illness, they still work together to deal with difficulties, but the fact is that the "captain" who leads the voyage drags almost everyone. Broken: Kate couldn't choose to die on her own, Anna was "planned" to be born into the world, even if the ultimate goal of all this was her mother's persistent "protection" for Kate, but this protection is too heavy, this selfish love It's a plunder.
PS Of course, another point to feel more deeply should be that each of us is not an appendage of others, nor is we born for others.
I hope everyone who is more or less "controlled" can speak out like Anna in court: "If this is my body, I have the right to make a decision."
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