Reaction to the Film Review

After I watched the movie, I decided to read many film reviews not only because I had to but because I wanted to see whether people has the same views and opinions on the movie as I had. Mr. Scott whose last name I am using because I have no idea what his first name is, basically summed up my entire view of the movie in about a page. “In modern day commercial fiction, and in Hollywood movies, childhood mortality is handled with sometimes cynical care” (Scott). I thought that what he was trying to say was that trying to capture the death of a child in a family is hard to do in Hollywood movies, because each director has his own view on the subject. While some might try to show the family hurt and divided by the death of the child, another can show this as a chance to change the way the family is by making them appear to become successful off of the death of a loved one, as in this movie as opposed to the book.

“The director, Nick Cassavetes, has in the past, in movies like “The Notebook” and “John Q,” attempted a kind of honest manipulation, wringing outsize waves of emotion out of more or less ordinary situations, and trying to hold on to some notion of realism in the process”(Scott). I also agreed with this point because before I watched the movie, I was hoping for some intense emotional scenes that would cause me to tear up and become very inspired and at the same time saddened by the events that occurred in the movie. As I was in the middle of watching the movie, it was not like what I expected. The sad scenes just made me frown as opposed of tear up. I noticed that although leukemia is not an “ordinary situation”, I thought that the director was probably trying to get more emotion out of these situations, which I thought were just not as emotional as I thought it would be.  

‘“My Sister’s Keeper” takes on a very tough subject — and has, in Anna and Kate, two pretty tough characters played by strong young actresses — but ultimately it is too soft, too easy, and it dissolves like a tear-soaked tissue’ (Scott). Overall I thought that this movie was a good movie, but like Mr. Scott said it was too soft and probably did not get the entire theme of sadness throughout the movie. One of the good things about this movie is that the roles were played by good actresses and actors which played their roles very well. And when it comes to the review given by Mr. Scott I agree with many of the points that he emphasized through his film review.

                

Scott, A. O. "Movie Review - My Sister's Keeper - My Kidney, My Life: Siblings in a Tough Spot - NYTimes.com." Movie Reviews, Showtimes and Trailers - Movies - New York Times - The New York Times. 26 June 2009. Web. 24 Feb. 2011. <http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/movies/26sister.html>.