I feel deeply, as if I am the sister, as if I am the mother

Amber 2022-03-24 09:02:00

The special experience of the past two years has made me feel very deeply about this film. Inextricable.

Last year, when I was in my early twenties, I had a tumor. Although it was benign, it seemed that words such as chemotherapy were not so far away from me. I was afraid when I saw Kate being tortured by the disease. Help, I can feel it. Every time I go to the hospital, I am afraid that the results will be bad. The cold operating room and the recovery after surgery were unforgettable to me. After the surgery, I was trembling involuntarily, and my tears kept coming. I unconsciously did these things to scare my relatives. The most painful thing is not the operation, but the recovery after the operation. All kinds of pain make me reluctant to go to the operating room. And the girl Kate in the film, she has spent more than ten years in this kind of life. This makes people's desire to survive also begins to diminish, until it collapses.

This year, it seems that God has given me a gift. Because of my medical history, after marriage, I hope to have a baby as soon as possible to complete my task as a woman, in order to prevent the regret of my poor health. Sure enough, how happy I was when I found out I was pregnant. However, this mood was replaced by tension, worry, and loss at three months because of the unhealthy fetus. In the end, after many medical consultations, the doctor asked me to remove the child. But the fetus was four months old at this time, so it took six hours of labor to give birth to a dead baby the size of a hand! I'm always sorry for this kid, though it's for each other's good, not having to suffer each other after he's born. However, he has always been my child.

In the movie, the mother does her best to heal KATE, even at the expense of her little daughter. I can't understand this feeling. Every time she tries her best, it makes me very painful, because I know that Sara is also like this. I am afraid that the child will leave me and want her to live! But the reality shows me what such unhealthy children bring to the family in the world. Sometimes I feel that my decision to take away the child is the right one, but that kind of giving up makes people unable to heal the wounds in their hearts for a long time.

That night, after watching the movie, I hugged my husband and cried for a long time.

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Extended Reading
  • Amiya 2022-03-23 09:02:02

    Didn't touch my tears. Abigail Breslin is so cute

My Sister's Keeper quotes

  • [first lines]

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: When I was a kid, my mother told me that I was a little piece of blue sky that came into this world because she and Dad loved me so much. It was only later that I realized that it wasn't exactly true. Most babies are coincidences. I mean, up in space you've got all these souls flying around looking for bodies to live in. Then, down here on Earth, two people have sex or whatever, and bam, coincidence. Sure, you hear all these stories about how everyone plans these perfect families. But the truth is that most babies are products of drunken evenings and lack of birth control. They're accidents. Only people who have trouble making babies actually plan for them.

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: I, on the other hand, am not a coincidence. I was engineered. Born for a particular reason. A scientist hooked up my mother's eggs and my father's sperm to make a specific combination of genes. He did it to save my sister's life. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Kate had been healthy. I'd probably still be up in heaven or wherever, waiting to be attached to a body down here on Earth. But coincidence or not, I'm here.

  • Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: I want to sue my parents for the right to my own body.

    Campbell Alexander: Would you repeat that, please?

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: I want to sue my parents for the right to my own body. My sister has leukemia. They're trying to force me to give her my body parts.

    Campbell Alexander: You're supposed to give her a kidney?

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: She's been in renal failure for months now.

    Campbell Alexander: Well, no one can force you to donate if you don't want to, can they?

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: They think they can. I'm under 18, they're my legal guardians.

    Campbell Alexander: They can't do that.

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: Well, I want you to tell them, because they've been doing it to me my whole life. I wouldn't even be alive if Kate wasn't sick. I'm a designer baby. I was made in a dish to be spare parts for Kate.