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I was designed, born for a special reason.
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In the Indian suspense movie "The Tuner" that I introduced a few days ago, the kidney problem was mentioned. There is a fictional story of buying and selling human organs, which is more frightening.
And, the movie I want to talk about today, "Sister's Guardian", seems to be a movie about family affection, and it will also involve kidneys.
The heroine Anna is only 11 years old, but her mother forces her to donate her kidney to her fifteen-year-old sister Kate.
Anna disagrees, filing a complaint against her parents for violating her right to physical freedom.
Every child is a pistachio of the family, a little angel. So why are Anna's parents so cruel?
"Have a cup of coffee?" It's a long story".
The film opens with the confession of the little girl Anna. At that time, she was sitting on the shore, surrounded by a slowly flowing river. Anna spoke in an extremely mature tone about her mission to this world.
She was an IVF and her life was designed and born for a special reason.
She had an older sister, an older sister with leukemia. Leukemia, as we all know, is an autoimmune deficiency disease.
For leukemia patients, cord blood is priceless.
It can be said that Anna is a tool person, born as her sister's "medicine storehouse", it can also be said that she was born to save her sister.
Her mission is to protect her sister.
For more than ten years, in order to save her sister, she underwent eight surgeries under the arrangement of her parents. The pain and grievances she experienced were known only to her.
For her sister's sake, she did everything that should be done.
However, when her mother asked her to donate a kidney for her sister, Anna, who was growing up, suddenly realized that she had the right to freedom of her own body, and she was also a person.
Perhaps "the greatest discovery of life is to discover yourself"
So, in the third minute of the opening of the movie, Anna goes into the pawnshop and sells her necklace.
In the seventh minute, Anna walked into the lawyer's office. She took out the $700 necklace for attorneys' fees and sued her parents for "limited termination of parental rights."
In the sixth minute of the opening of the movie, with a warm detail, Anna's family is explained. Anna's mom and brother Jesse were playing jumping out of bed. Anna and her father and sister Kate sat next to each other and watched with a smile and a drink. At the same time, there are colorful soap bubbles that continue to emerge in the picture.
Looks like a happy, sweet family of five. However, the fluttering soap bubbles and Dad's confession tell us that the family is rifted and that happiness is short-lived.
The story time actually focuses on the time before and after the sister Kate's critical illness and kidney replacement. The director tells the audience about the sister's medical history through constant flashback shots, telling the audience that the mother Sarah quit her job to take care of her daughter full-time for the sick child.
Sarah had only one purpose, and she wanted her daughter to live.
Unlike many movies I've seen before, the characters in this movie confess the most. Confessions occur when the action fails to reveal the character's mental activity.
As the plot progresses, either sister Anna, or dad Brian, or brother Jesse, or sister Kate.
Of course, all of this confession is to reveal the inner world of the characters. Throughout the film, the characters' inner struggles and entanglements are vividly expressed.
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How can the happiness of a soap bubble last!
In the twelfth minute, sister Kate fell ill, vomited, and her mouth was full of blood, and her appearance was very frightening.
The doctor told the parents that the kidney replacement was urgently needed. Otherwise, Kate's life will soon be over.
Then, Mother Sarah received a court summons. When I learned that my little daughter had sued her. She was very angry, argued with Anna on the spot, and gave Anna a slap without mercy, and the family atmosphere was suddenly tense.
It was also here that Anna shouted out for the first time: I am also important.
At this point, it is necessary to talk about the personality characteristics of her mother, Sarah, who is stubborn and extremely paranoid. Before having children, she was a lawyer, supposedly highly educated and knowledgeable about psychology.
However, since Kate was born, she quit her job to take care of her sick children and became a housewife.
As a parent, it should be fair, a bowl of water is flat, and the love is divided equally among the three children.
However, all her attention and enthusiasm or love was focused on Kate. The growth of the other two children, older brother Jesse and younger sister Anna, was almost neglected.
In the movie, there is a detail that his brother Jesse once did not catch the school bus after school in the evening, so he had to walk home. When I got home, it was late. Jesse was worried, afraid of being scolded.
As a result, no one found out. No one cares, is he tired? Eat it? Is he happy or not?
And Anna, who exists as a tool person, has never received the hug and care of her mother from the beginning to the end of the movie.
While Kate was hospitalized, Anna was also in the hospital. Mom Sarah only saw Kate's pain and always ignored Anna's efforts. It seems that Anna should be like this.
There is a detail in the movie that makes people particularly distressed. Five-year-old Anna was pressed to the bed by a nurse to undergo surgery, and Anna cried out loud. Mother Sarah just stood indifferently outside the operating room and watched. It was as if this child belonged to someone else's family and had nothing to do with her.
The family is a system, and when family members cannot be treated fairly, naturally the system will have problems, and it is a big problem.
With three children, Kate is a blood cancer. Jesse has dyslexia. Anna took her parents to court.
In such a family environment, like a room without light, everyone's life seems to be difficult.
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Of course, the most exciting part of the movie is the mother-daughter confrontation. The scene quarrel was very intense.
Mother Sarah asked Anna directly: Why didn't you save your sister?
The lawyer asked Sarah: Who will protect Anna?
In the eighty-third minute, at the height of the debate, his brother Jesse bravely stepped forward and told the truth: Kate wanted to die.
It turned out that Anna's going to court was also supported by sister Kate. Kate told Anna "my whole life is full of pain and I want to die".
In the face of an extremely paranoid and aggressive mother, this is the only way the sisters can resist.
For fifteen years, Mom Sarah gave up everything and poured all her efforts into Kate, who was her greatest hope and the value of her life. In fact, she knew in her heart, but she just didn't want to let go.
One night before Kate's deathbed, mother Sarah curled up in Kate's hospital bed to accompany her daughter on her last journey.
Ninety-seventh minute, it was a heavy funeral.
Soft-hearted audiences need to prepare tissues.
The reason why this movie attracts attention is not only that the plot is interlocked and has a strong sense of substitution. Moreover, the story is full of emotion and has super tension.
In particular, this kind of competition and resistance between family ties requires courage. Because, after the quarrel, the fight was over. I also had to sit at a table and eat. We still have to live together.
The reason why the drama "Thunderstorm" has become a classic among classics is also because of the strong emotional tension. Two families, thirty years of enmity and feud broke out. The family secret is revealed, destroying both families like a hurricane. The eldest son shot himself. The daughter Sifeng was electrocuted and died, and the younger son Zhou Chong went to save Sifeng and was also electrocuted. The stepmother went crazy. Such a tragedy strikes the heart.
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There is also the tragedy of King Oedipus. Remember, who said that greek tragedy is the concentrated presentation of all human suffering. Oedipus was a tragedy of fate, that is, inescapable.
Because there is an oracle that says that he grew up to "kill the father and marry the mother."
He was abandoned from an early age. It can be seen by a shepherd and given to another shepherd in another country. The shepherd gave the child to the king. The king happened to have no children, so he happily adopted them.
Growing up, Oedipus, knowing the oracle, was frightened and left the country.
He came to a strange country. On the way, he meets a very arrogant man, who kills the man (he does not know, he killed his father).
He guessed the Sphinx mystery again. Just as the king was killed, he was welcomed into the country by the people and became king.
There is a habit in this country. The new king was to marry the wife of the previous king.
In the darkness, he married his mother again.
Later, the truth came out.
Remorseful, Oedipus stabbed himself blind.
His mother committed suicide by hanging herself.
The reason why I talk about these two stories is because such tragedies occur between relatives. It hurts, it hurts my heart, and I don't want to die.
And so is this movie. In order to save one child, another must be sacrificed. The palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are all flesh, so why is it embarrassing?
Although, I think this mom Sarah is eccentric and stubborn. But, to put yourself in the shoes of others, you're in that position, how would you choose?
Doesn't the mother in the movie "Tangshan Earthquake" also face a difficult choice? Is it to choose to save the younger brother and choose to save the sister? What if, you only have one chance?
Pulling away, thoughts pulled back.
The film's director is Nick Kasowitz, a famous American director and screenwriter. In the movie, he changed the character ending. In the original work, it is different.
At the end of the movie, Kate leaves. Mom Sarah returns to work. My brother Jesse was admitted to an art school. Dad retired and worked as a social aid worker. Anna grew up happily.
The life of a family, return to peace.
At the end of the novel, however, it is more tragic. The writer "arranged" for his sister to die in a car accident. Naturally, he "donated" his sister's kidney to his sister Kate. Sister Anna will always become the "guardian" of her sister.
Which ending do you like?
The film is based on the novel by American writer Judy Picao.
Because it involves kidney donation, family affection, friendship, love, after the book was published, it caused great controversy and was also very popular.
It was later adapted into a movie and released in the United States on June 26, 2009. Actually, it's an old movie. It's just that the plot is too sensitive and bizarre, and it is still a good movie to look at so far.
The film echoes back and forth, and at the end, sister Anna sits by the river again. A faint smile, a deep confession, the ending song is like a river flowing slowly...