russbuss I have to agree. It's sad but true and the book ( read a spoiler) ending was unrealistic and very untrue. The movie ending had to this way ( in my own opinion) because death can make you go anyway. Kate's death brought them closer than apart. Now that said in the book Anna dies ( if u didn't read either in so sorry) which in my opinion would break me apart. Then said the parents only had here to save their other daughter which is the most selfish thing ever. So when Anna dies that would be it. Kate lives and nobody ever really remembers her except Kate the one who always most important. Thanks author you wrote an ending with the value of saying using people is the only way to live in this world. While in the movie she had Kate in life, Anna tried to save her, and Kate then let nature take its course keeping sister safe in the process. Everyone one won a selfless battle.
Ann Defratie I agree, the book's ending just felt too Hollywood. How Anna dies but Kate makes a miraculous recovery. That's not how cancer works. You get it once and you're stuck with it for the rest of your life. No one ever wins against cancer, they just survive one bout and then they relapse a few months/years later. Again and again until it finally kills them. I've lost 5 people (and a cat) to cancer over the last 10 years.
Kate explained that she wasn't technically cured, but remained in remission for 6 years. The kidney along with Anna's useable organs that were transplanted in her only delayed it temporarily. She knew her cancer would come back some day, but the when part is something even Kate isn't sure of.
I think that this is the rare example of a movie being better than the book. This ending is more satisfying and sends a greater message than the one the book gave. The book’s ending made it seem like people are born for the sake of someone else while this ending gave the message that everyone is born with a choice, a choice to live their lives the way they want to live it. While Kate’s death was sad and heartbreaking, in the end, it was ultimately her decision to end it. Though this is just my opinion.
This ending also gives a message of letting go which is the hardest thing to do when it regards the ones you love the most, but it’s not all bad. Sometimes you have to let go to gain something in return. In this scenario, Sara has to let go of Kate to bring her family back together closer than they ever had before.
I hate the book's ending as it end it make feel like in Anna never got the chance to escape of being used as Katie's lifeline instead of being her own person. In the end it make it look like she is not really a person but a thing that only is keeping Katie alive. Everything she fought for? It was for naught. The mother's selfishness is awarded instead of being punished as the daughter she cared for more survived while the healthier daughter has to die. Not only that it sounded like she was going to eventually donate a kidney to Katie anyway out of her own free will, they didn't have to kill her to reinforce it. I don't care what other people think as this is my own thoughts and feeling and they hate my opinions, well screw them because Anna deserves better then the fate she got from the book.
Not exactly. Kate explained that Anna's death brought new perspective to the family. She mentions that she nearly relapsed until the kidney and other organs responded well. While the doctors thought her body accepted the organs, she knew better and that Anna died in her place so she can live. While Brian, Jesse and Kate continued to love her wherever she is, Sara felt insurmountable guilt for what she's done. In forcing her to donate her body parts without asking, Sara felt that Anna's death was her punishment for making her family suffer over the years and retreated in her own world.
Normally, Anna's usually willing to give up something to help keep her older sister alive. However, Kate refused to go through any more surgeries. She was fed up with being in and out of hospitals each time she relapsed. Plus, Kate resented Sara for having not listened to her when she told her mother that she was ready to die and that she had been using Anna as a guinea pig to continue the transplants. Hence, she bravely stood up for Anna and told her to sue for medical emancipation. Kate didn't want her being denied of the quality of life she deserved.
I actually prefer this ending. Anna won only to die anyway in the book. Kate could relapse or get a new problem and without Anna, so she's good as dead. So not only do they lose one child they would have lost both in no time. In the end Anna died being spare parts just like she was intended to be from the very beginning of her life. And from a reader's perspective the ending seemed to be really rushed.
I think the ending is great because it shows in subtle way the resentment between Anna and her mom. There is a bitterness and blaming between those two.The mom's eyes tell, "if only you would donate that kidney I would have two daughters". Anna's eyes say "I miss the Kate too but I have the right to my own body. "
@@ElizabethsLife-iq1vy yes she was in a car accident with her lawyer and died, but I think she wrote a letter and said that she wanted Kate to have her organs and Kate ended up being a dance teacher.
And kate wanted to be set free. It was a morbid ending and unsatisfying because this was about letting go, not forcing your kids to suffer a life of pain.
I feel like the movie has a more realistic touch to it, with better realistic emotions and reactions. It really puts out there; "What about me?" and "Do I get a say in this?" and it also portrays a mother's grief, a conflicted father, an on the side brother and two sisters with a very strong, emotional bond.
Exactly. In the novel's epilogue, Sara continued feeling insurmountable guilt over how she treated Anna and didn't realize her importance to the family until it was too late.
Novel: During recess in the courtroom, Anna finally told Sara the truth about Kate's wishes for death and the suffering she has been enduring from what she went through. Though shocked by this revelation, she later comes to terms and wished Kate told her sooner. Sara admitted she is proud of Anna for being mature to stand up for her rights to her own body and understood why she needed to protect Kate. She finally accepts it's time to let Kate go and rest in peace. After gaining Medical Emancipation, Campbell is driving Anna home. She admits that no matter what happens, she wants to give Kate the kidney and do the surgery anyway. However, Anna wanted it to be on her terms. Soon she and Campbell are involved in a car accident. He survives with a broken arm, but Anna is killed right away and is only kept alive by life support. It was Campbell who honored her last wishes to give the kidney to Kate because he has power of attorney. In that moment, Sara truly regretted how she treated Anna as nothing more than spare parts. She didn't want to turn off the life support, but Brian told her that they have to. Anna is already dead and there's nothing they can do about it. Because of her terrible behavior, she unwittingly sentenced her youngest daughter to die in her own selfish attempts to keep Kate alive. In the epilogue's ending, Sara continued living with insurmountable guilt and it took her a long time to get over Anna's death.
I was left with a red nose and red eyes for a good few hours after watching this movie. Impossible to watch this film without balling your eyes out. Such a moving film.
@@hugosanchez6395 Def more realistic but I thought the book ending is what separated the story from other versions we've seen before. Was disappointed that they changed it
I too lost my sister, in fact lost many of my loved ones. Hurts that they left a vacant spot no one can fill, however I had them once to laugh with and for that I am so grateful. Heaven is smiling down on us all
I like this ending than the book. For one it gave Kate a choice to die on her own free because she had enough of her disease destroying her family and her little sister being used against her will. It's much better than Anna winning her case and then dying in the end to be spare parts like she was meant too like she never mattered. This was better. Both Kate and Anna got have a choice that was never given to them in the first place.
They probably made Kate die instead because the book ending where Anna dies is really bad. It was rushed and felt like a cop out. Honestly, it just defeated the whole purpose of the book
Not really. The point of the book was literally "shit happens". That's how it was with Kate getting cancer and Anna deciding to not let her have her kidney and then having Anna die when she'd won the lawsuit was another way to show that. Literally the entire point of the book was: sometimes life doesn't work out as planned, but you work through it and around it and go on as best you can. So yes. Anna dying fit in perfectly with that and it made perfect sense she would die instead.
I dunno. It felt wrong...that after all Anna went through to not give her kidney away and just to have her parents give it away anyways was...bad. Plus, Kate had a incredibly small chance of living with the kidney and she somehow makes it? And manages to teach Ballet? That was ridiculous.
Chantel Spriggs its been a while since i read the book, but im pretty sure the revelation is that Anna didn't actually want to refuse Kate treatment- it was Kate that didnt want her to be a guinea pig anymore and asked her to not give away her kidney
razmataz13drums that and she was pretty certain that she was going to die anyway, so she was tired of delaying the inevitable and wanted to just let go.
Even though Kate died and it's devastating, the family has never been better. They feel like they can actually breathe again. Jessie and Anna actually got relationships with their parents
I see the look on Sara's (Cameron Diaz) face when she looks at Anna (Abigail Breslin) as if to say "I'm very proud of you for sticking up for yourself"; I don't know if I could be as brave as either Sara or Anna in this situation if I were in either of their shoes.
I can sense some resentment between those two. It is quite subtle, but it places a great stain on their relationship. How they are going to trust one another? For me, this happy ending and happy relationship is fake. And this is what makes this ending so great.
Sara also realized that Anna was only fighting for both Kate's rights to die and the rights to her own body. In some ways, she is proud of her youngest daughter for standing up for herself. The resentment is still there, but Sara promised Kate that she would no longer treat Anna and Jesse like she did before.
I too prefer this ending for the same reasons. I recently bought a new copy of the book and I am finding it hard to read because the idea that receiving a kidney is exactly what she needed to be cured of leukaemia does not make sense to me, like why didn't she relapse again? A friend of mine had a very similar form of leukaemia and she didn't make two weeks after diagnosis and commencement of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy killed her and when I read the book for the first time about a year after my friend's death, I was still grieving so much that for a little while I thought then ending was plausible and as a result I was extremely jealous of Kate. Then, I realised through my own research into leukaemia that the ending in the book for Kate could only be considered miraculous to the point where it was no longer plausible. I do believe in miracles but I still think they need to be a bit plausible
Kate does relapse. She says so in the final chapter of the book. Also, she explains that her reasoning behind her miraculous recovery is that someone had to die and Anna died instead. I don't know if you believe in fate or destiny or anything, but maybe Kate is right in this instance.
Took it right out of my mouth....she should've requested to be removed her custody anyways for not having her best interest at heart...only her older daughter's
Relationships change and grow even when one of them are gone. I’m pretty sure every single person whose experienced lost understands that. The people we love will always be gone too soon, and it’s truly a gift to have special bonds with different people. Cherish them while they’re still here and if they’re already gone, be grateful that they were someone special in your life.
this scene breaks my heart. one of my closest friends died of cancer when she was 14 and this scene makes me bawl! when she said that she didn't understand why her sister had to die... I lost it because that's almost exactly how I feel
this movie just reminds me of my mum, "one day i'm sure i'll see her again but until then our relationship continues' This movie was just so heart breaking
Wow, this ending is completely different from the book; In the book, Anna gets to have control on her body and her medical decisions, and then she is in a car crash and dies; her kidney is given to Kate and Kate lives
This ending is way better than the book. Even though Anna and Sara had a bone to pick with each other, it was nice that they could forgive each other and move on. Anna didn't have to be Kate's lifeline any more and Sara could live down being sued by her own daughter. I see this as an absolute win!
@@detective8205 I agree I understand what lead her to do such an awful thing. But knowing that Kate wished to die. She should be beyond sorry for using her daughter like that
In this scene, you can really tell that Anna’s family has reconnected and they can see the importance of what it means to be a family. They’re trying to see the good in this and move on as well.
i think both endings are needed, they both bring different perspectives and shows what wouldve happened w one sister and not the other. i think the author did a beautiful job in this.
i dont believe one second that the mother was sad and desperated about annas death. She is a completely narcistic person.She got what she want in the end and thats all what matters to her.She knew from the start were she decided to get a baby to save kate that perhaps something could go wrong with the surgery and she was very willingly to take the risk. This book is not a drama ist a thriller about a mother who created a child to killed it willingly in the end.
I wished she never talked to her parents again. What they did was awful. I do like the message…when I was younger I thought it was sad but now I understand it….
How could a parent do such a thing? I've seen examples of parents attempting to move mountains to save their children but being oblivious to the landslide they create in doing so. I can understand that a parent loves their children but that love shouldn't lead to hurting them, whether it be emotionally or physically. Some will argue that their heart was in the right place but one cannot ignore the raw abuse you witness.
I much prefer this ending. I hated the book ending. With Anna's death and Kate's survival, everything Anna was fighting for was essentially deemed worthless. The freedom she'd been bravely trying to attain for the entire novel was completely eradicated upon her death, rendering the message of the book completely meaningless. I would've much preferred the book to end like this as it delivers the moral that freedom is worth fighting for.
Everyone else is mad because of the ending change, but I'm mad because they changed Jesse's character and he was one of the most relatable characters for me, personally. I have two younger sisters, one of which is ill and has been in and out of hospital a few times in the past. I acted out for the attention I never got growing up and it was a nice thing to see and be able to relate to.
I can understand the mothers perspective but she really pisses me off sometimes. How could anybody choose one child over another, and to consciously "manufacture" a child for the sole purpose of keeping the other alive is barbaric. I understand the mother loved her daughter but she was delusional.
Just thankful that I have not had to be in that mothers position and hope I never am. Can’t judge something as unimaginable as what she was going through.
Honestly everyone is saying that this ending is better than the book but just watch if this was just a smidge more realistic the mom and dad are either gonna hate anna in the future once the happiness dies down or even more realistically anna grows up amd cuts off her parents for everything that happened and call them the absolute scum they are.
I do think the movie's ending is better than the book's, but it's still not ideal. You're right: there should have been resentment and complcations. But they had to wrap it up with limited runtime, and for me at least this ending is better in comparison to the book's.
We had to watch this movie in school for a class about controversial subjects. We had to discuss the moral and ethical problems with having a child that serves only as 'spare parts' for another person, or letting that other person suffer and die of cancer. It was incredibly difficult for all of us since many of us had family members who had gone through cancer, some who even lost that battle. Some people said they would have done what Kate's mother did and had a designer baby to save the person with cancer, while others said that it's immoral and wrong to tamper with genes to create a human who is essentially just a ready made donor. I see both sides, and that's why this movie is so hard to watch. Because the whole time, you desperately want to see Kate live, but you also feel how just disgusting it feels to watch Anna suffer for the sake of saving Kate. I found that when we watched this in class, I was the only one truly balling because I could see how hard it would be to be faced with that situation, and ultimately have to choose....
When I was 11, my brother died of an unknown virus. We think it may have been coronavirus, some say it was different. He was only 14 years old. I miss him every day and the ending to this movie basically explains how I feel. He may be gone but our relationship continues. And I do have hope that one day we will see each other again in heaven.
I think it's important to remember that the parents didn't know how long Kate's illness would last. In their minds, it might have been, ok, we have another baby, take marrow/ blood transfusions from her for a year or so, and then Kate can recover and we'll have 3 healthy happy kids, all of whom we'll love. They didn't know Kate would be sick for the next 12 years, and at what point do you give up? I'm not saying what they did was okay, but I can understand how you could justify it if you were desperate.
it wasn’t really about when to give up. it was about the moral question of how long are you supposed to put the “savior” sibling through all that before you start questioning what’s right? what definitely wasn’t right the manipulation of a child to be able to do it.
I feel this ending is actually sadder. This poor child will live knowing she was spare. Niggled with doubt about how much love hee mother would have had for her if her sister had survived.
those who have never been to have a good sister will never understand, i have a sister who is 10 years apart, we are not living together anymore, we are so far apart, cross the ocean, when i miss her , i cannot just cry in her arms anymore, and no one is gonna to tell me it is okay she is there, i miss her so much that at night there is no one hold me to sleep and no one i have to weak up, what i can do, call her and cry to her? i am so weak without her to tell me to be strong
Honestly, I prefer the ending in the book where Anna died. It really caught me in surprise and still does, the fact that everyone is expecting Kate to die, and Sara and Brian lived all those years getting ready to lose Kate but in the end, it was Anna who left. And as she was brain dead, Campbell used his power as attorney to donate Anna's kidney to Kate. So, Kate lives, and managed to graduate from school and all and her words, "Someone had to leave, and Anna took my place," that really touched my heart. With Anna's kidney in her body, Kate brings her wherever she go. :')
did anna died because she donated her kidney? i would love to read the book but the thing is im not a bookworm :/ for some reason i dont like reading novels cuz its like hard to imagine those words with no pictures, so could u plz tell me how did anna died in the book?
+evolusaw PE Anna was in a car crash and was put on life support. The doctors told Brian and Sara that Anna was brain dead so that's when they decided to donate Anna's kidney to Kate. Kate gets the kidney and she survives. Personally I prefer the movies ending but that's just me I suppose.
It is kind of like the movie , I forget the name. debra winger played the mom and she had cancer and it was a true story but the daughter dies at the end in Columbine CO. It was tragic and so sad
I have to admit, I almost never read books before the film adaptations. But I usually find the books to be better than the films. In my college sociology class, we were supposed to read one of the four required books and write a report. My Sister's Keeper was one of them and now I wish I had read it then.
I never read the book, and know nothing about it. What I do know is that I have seen a lot of movies in my life, and left this movie in the theatre strongly believing that this was not only the best movie I had ever seen, but it wasn't even close. I still believe this.
@seenoong I understand and agree with your points, however, I have a comment to add about the last reason; My best friend's older sister was 14 when she had Leukimia but she survived, and now she is a very healthy 19 year old who's enjoying university.
we were doing about 'test tube babies' in science and we watched this and me and my friend were bawling our eyes out. but were at the front row so no one could see us crying XD sad film. really sad.
Dear Buddies, I haven't read the book but my "sissy"(my sister's name is Sissy : ) ) told me about the book. i just rewatched it. about for the 100th time. when i most hardly cried was the scene when they're on the beach. i'm not sure but i think it's the first time i watched it with original langauge. keep Letting this feeling infusing your soul. the feeling of heart-warming stories.
why did they have to change the ending? people are saying the book ending was predictabe but it wasn't!I thought they were going to let Kate die peacefully -as she wished- but then Ana ends up dieing and when Kate tells us how everything turned out I bawled my eyes out because in her car ride with Campbell I felt like everything was going to b fine...they changed a lot of the book...for example the dog was a german shepard, Campbell never made a commercial, the brother was more involved in the story, and what I already mentioned the ending is different
The book ending was bad in mt opinion because it rendered Anna's and in turn Kate efforts for naught. Anna also would had donated a kidney anyway, killing her wasn't needed. In the end anna died as a object, lifeline, not a actual person Sara bad parenting was rewarded. Anna's death also only prolonged the inevitable, Kate realistically most likely face future complications and without Anna she might not last that long.
Kate's mother shaved her hair because Kate felt, due to her lack of hair, that she was ugly. Her mother shaved off her own hair to show Kate that she was beautiful, and that she would always right there beside her, through everything she went through. It isn't offensive. It's a selfless sacrifice made by a mother who wants nothing more then to keep her daughter healthy, and happy.
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The major theme in the movie revolved around letting go. I absolutely love the movie ending. They could not have done it more beautifully.
russbuss I have to agree. It's sad but true and the book ( read a spoiler) ending was unrealistic and very untrue. The movie ending had to this way ( in my own opinion) because death can make you go anyway. Kate's death brought them closer than apart. Now that said in the book Anna dies ( if u didn't read either in so sorry) which in my opinion would break me apart. Then said the parents only had here to save their other daughter which is the most selfish thing ever. So when Anna dies that would be it. Kate lives and nobody ever really remembers her except Kate the one who always most important. Thanks author you wrote an ending with the value of saying using people is the only way to live in this world. While in the movie she had Kate in life, Anna tried to save her, and Kate then let nature take its course keeping sister safe in the process. Everyone one won a selfless battle.
Ann Defratie I agree, the book's ending just felt too Hollywood. How Anna dies but Kate makes a miraculous recovery. That's not how cancer works. You get it once and you're stuck with it for the rest of your life. No one ever wins against cancer, they just survive one bout and then they relapse a few months/years later. Again and again until it finally kills them.
I've lost 5 people (and a cat) to cancer over the last 10 years.
Kate explained that she wasn't technically cured, but remained in remission for 6 years. The kidney along with Anna's useable organs that were transplanted in her only delayed it temporarily. She knew her cancer would come back some day, but the when part is something even Kate isn't sure of.
To think the author of the book was angry about this beautiful ending
Read the book
I think that this is the rare example of a movie being better than the book. This ending is more satisfying and sends a greater message than the one the book gave. The book’s ending made it seem like people are born for the sake of someone else while this ending gave the message that everyone is born with a choice, a choice to live their lives the way they want to live it. While Kate’s death was sad and heartbreaking, in the end, it was ultimately her decision to end it. Though this is just my opinion.
This ending also gives a message of letting go which is the hardest thing to do when it regards the ones you love the most, but it’s not all bad. Sometimes you have to let go to gain something in return. In this scenario, Sara has to let go of Kate to bring her family back together closer than they ever had before.
couldn't have said it better
The book's ending is the RIGHT ENDING! God KILLED Anna for disobeying authority!
I hate the book's ending as it end it make feel like in Anna never got the chance to escape of being used as Katie's lifeline instead of being her own person. In the end it make it look like she is not really a person but a thing that only is keeping Katie alive. Everything she fought for? It was for naught. The mother's selfishness is awarded instead of being punished as the daughter she cared for more survived while the healthier daughter has to die. Not only that it sounded like she was going to eventually donate a kidney to Katie anyway out of her own free will, they didn't have to kill her to reinforce it. I don't care what other people think as this is my own thoughts and feeling and they hate my opinions, well screw them because Anna deserves better then the fate she got from the book.
Not exactly. Kate explained that Anna's death brought new perspective to the family. She mentions that she nearly relapsed until the kidney and other organs responded well. While the doctors thought her body accepted the organs, she knew better and that Anna died in her place so she can live. While Brian, Jesse and Kate continued to love her wherever she is, Sara felt insurmountable guilt for what she's done. In forcing her to donate her body parts without asking, Sara felt that Anna's death was her punishment for making her family suffer over the years and retreated in her own world.
Summonearth Completely agree with you
Please stfu. Her sister was dying. She should've got surgery instead of being a whiny bitch about it.
Normally, Anna's usually willing to give up something to help keep her older sister alive. However, Kate refused to go through any more surgeries. She was fed up with being in and out of hospitals each time she relapsed. Plus, Kate resented Sara for having not listened to her when she told her mother that she was ready to die and that she had been using Anna as a guinea pig to continue the transplants. Hence, she bravely stood up for Anna and told her to sue for medical emancipation. Kate didn't want her being denied of the quality of life she deserved.
I read the book like it is different to this I wish it was the same tho But I guess it is better bc I would’ve cried
the point was i had a sister. she was fantastic. one day i'm sure i will see her again, but until then, our relationship continues.
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yes
For the first time in Anna’s life her mother is looking at her with such love and adoration
Yet, with ETERNAL RESENTMENT that GOD will make Anna pay in HELL!
I actually prefer this ending. Anna won only to die anyway in the book. Kate could relapse or get a new problem and without Anna, so she's good as dead. So not only do they lose one child they would have lost both in no time. In the end Anna died being spare parts just like she was intended to be from the very beginning of her life. And from a reader's perspective the ending seemed to be really rushed.
I think the ending is great because it shows in subtle way the resentment between Anna and her mom. There is a bitterness and blaming between those two.The mom's eyes tell, "if only you would donate that kidney I would have two daughters". Anna's eyes say "I miss the Kate too but I have the right to my own body. "
I thought the book ending was just too dramatic. I mean it could happen but it took away from the sentiment of the whole story
Shaney Zamora anna died??
@@ElizabethsLife-iq1vy yes she was in a car accident with her lawyer and died, but I think she wrote a letter and said that she wanted Kate to have her organs and Kate ended up being a dance teacher.
And kate wanted to be set free. It was a morbid ending and unsatisfying because this was about letting go, not forcing your kids to suffer a life of pain.
I feel like the movie has a more realistic touch to it, with better realistic emotions and reactions. It really puts out there; "What about me?" and "Do I get a say in this?" and it also portrays a mother's grief, a conflicted father, an on the side brother and two sisters with a very strong, emotional bond.
I think Anna dying would have had an impact from the mothers perspective.
"Got what you wanted but lost what you had" etc.
Exactly. In the novel's epilogue, Sara continued feeling insurmountable guilt over how she treated Anna and didn't realize her importance to the family until it was too late.
@@ladyfire44 hey if you don't mind can you tell me a little bit more about Sara's realisation and regret please
Novel:
During recess in the courtroom, Anna finally told Sara the truth about Kate's wishes for death and the suffering she has been enduring from what she went through. Though shocked by this revelation, she later comes to terms and wished Kate told her sooner. Sara admitted she is proud of Anna for being mature to stand up for her rights to her own body and understood why she needed to protect Kate. She finally accepts it's time to let Kate go and rest in peace.
After gaining Medical Emancipation, Campbell is driving Anna home. She admits that no matter what happens, she wants to give Kate the kidney and do the surgery anyway. However, Anna wanted it to be on her terms. Soon she and Campbell are involved in a car accident. He survives with a broken arm, but Anna is killed right away and is only kept alive by life support. It was Campbell who honored her last wishes to give the kidney to Kate because he has power of attorney. In that moment, Sara truly regretted how she treated Anna as nothing more than spare parts. She didn't want to turn off the life support, but Brian told her that they have to. Anna is already dead and there's nothing they can do about it. Because of her terrible behavior, she unwittingly sentenced her youngest daughter to die in her own selfish attempts to keep Kate alive.
In the epilogue's ending, Sara continued living with insurmountable guilt and it took her a long time to get over Anna's death.
You never get over a death.
I wanted her to say, "In the end I wasn't put on this earth to save my sister, my sister was born to save me."
That wouldn't make sense.
Your sister was not born to save you either lol
Thats such a dumb thing to say. Thank God you don't write screenplays.
We should be grateful you don’t write movies
girl what the hell are you talking about…
In real life, imagine the trauma of believing your existence is based on keeping someone alive and then failing at it.
As a child it’s worse 😢
I was left with a red nose and red eyes for a good few hours after watching this movie. Impossible to watch this film without balling your eyes out. Such a moving film.
“I’ll never understand why Kate had to die and we all got to live. There’s no reason for it, I guess. Death’s just death - nobody understands it.”
This ending is beautiful! I definitely prefer the movie ending!
Daniela13 more realistic
@@hugosanchez6395 Def more realistic but I thought the book ending is what separated the story from other versions we've seen before. Was disappointed that they changed it
@@hugosanchez6395 not more realistic. More likely
@@charlieandthechocfactrules9186 that’s… the same thing.
You mean the wrong ending?
I too lost my sister, in fact lost many of my loved ones. Hurts that they left a vacant spot no one can fill, however I had them once to laugh with and for that I am so grateful. Heaven is smiling down on us all
I like this ending than the book. For one it gave Kate a choice to die on her own free because she had enough of her disease destroying her family and her little sister being used against her will. It's much better than Anna winning her case and then dying in the end to be spare parts like she was meant too like she never mattered. This was better. Both Kate and Anna got have a choice that was never given to them in the first place.
GOD BEGS TO DIFFER!
You know what, screw it. I like this ending better than the book. There. I said it.
Yeah really ..this end goes with the logic the meaning of life
They probably made Kate die instead because the book ending where Anna dies is really bad. It was rushed and felt like a cop out. Honestly, it just defeated the whole purpose of the book
Not really. The point of the book was literally "shit happens". That's how it was with Kate getting cancer and Anna deciding to not let her have her kidney and then having Anna die when she'd won the lawsuit was another way to show that. Literally the entire point of the book was: sometimes life doesn't work out as planned, but you work through it and around it and go on as best you can. So yes. Anna dying fit in perfectly with that and it made perfect sense she would die instead.
I dunno. It felt wrong...that after all Anna went through to not give her kidney away and just to have her parents give it away anyways was...bad. Plus, Kate had a incredibly small chance of living with the kidney and she somehow makes it? And manages to teach Ballet? That was ridiculous.
Chantel Spriggs its been a while since i read the book, but im pretty sure the revelation is that Anna didn't actually want to refuse Kate treatment- it was Kate that didnt want her to be a guinea pig anymore and asked her to not give away her kidney
razmataz13drums that and she was pretty certain that she was going to die anyway, so she was tired of delaying the inevitable and wanted to just let go.
Chantel Spriggs
I know. I love the book, but I hate the ending. This like what was the point of her fighting. She wound up loosing at the end.
The movie ending ripped my heart out.
The book ending ripped my soul in half T__T
Even though Kate died and it's devastating, the family has never been better. They feel like they can actually breathe again. Jessie and Anna actually got relationships with their parents
I see the look on Sara's (Cameron Diaz) face when she looks at Anna (Abigail Breslin) as if to say "I'm very proud of you for sticking up for yourself"; I don't know if I could be as brave as either Sara or Anna in this situation if I were in either of their shoes.
I can sense some resentment between those two. It is quite subtle, but it places a great stain on their relationship. How they are going to trust one another? For me, this happy ending and happy relationship is fake. And this is what makes this ending so great.
Sara also realized that Anna was only fighting for both Kate's rights to die and the rights to her own body. In some ways, she is proud of her youngest daughter for standing up for herself. The resentment is still there, but Sara promised Kate that she would no longer treat Anna and Jesse like she did before.
I too prefer this ending for the same reasons. I recently bought a new copy of the book and I am finding it hard to read because the idea that receiving a kidney is exactly what she needed to be cured of leukaemia does not make sense to me, like why didn't she relapse again? A friend of mine had a very similar form of leukaemia and she didn't make two weeks after diagnosis and commencement of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy killed her and when I read the book for the first time about a year after my friend's death, I was still grieving so much that for a little while I thought then ending was plausible and as a result I was extremely jealous of Kate. Then, I realised through my own research into leukaemia that the ending in the book for Kate could only be considered miraculous to the point where it was no longer plausible. I do believe in miracles but I still think they need to be a bit plausible
Kate DID relapse again after getting Anna's kidney. Top of page 422.
Kate does relapse. She says so in the final chapter of the book. Also, she explains that her reasoning behind her miraculous recovery is that someone had to die and Anna died instead. I don't know if you believe in fate or destiny or anything, but maybe Kate is right in this instance.
I am not sure what is "Good Ending" here. But I am sure this is my favorite ending, the wish come true.
How could she stand to be near her mother after what her mother did
Took it right out of my mouth....she should've requested to be removed her custody anyways for not having her best interest at heart...only her older daughter's
Relationships change and grow even when one of them are gone. I’m pretty sure every single person whose experienced lost understands that. The people we love will always be gone too soon, and it’s truly a gift to have special bonds with different people. Cherish them while they’re still here and if they’re already gone, be grateful that they were someone special in your life.
this scene breaks my heart. one of my closest friends died of cancer when she was 14 and this scene makes me bawl! when she said that she didn't understand why her sister had to die... I lost it because that's almost exactly how I feel
this movie just reminds me of my mum, "one day i'm sure i'll see her again but until then our relationship continues' This movie was just so heart breaking
Sophie Campbell ... Same here ... 😔 reminds me of My mom....
Wow, this ending is completely different from the book;
In the book, Anna gets to have control on her body and her medical decisions, and then she is in a car crash and dies; her kidney is given to Kate and Kate lives
omg I'm definitely going to read that, but it'd sad that she was made just to keep kate alive that wasn't fair.
The book is better. Anna wanted to give her kidney to her sister but she wanted it to be her own choice. And then this crash((
In the movie, Anna gets to have control on her body and her medical decisions after Kate dies.
I just re-read the book. The first time I read it, I was sad, but this time I cried 😢
@@nadiiakovtan5439 The movie is MUCH better.
This ending is way better than the book. Even though Anna and Sara had a bone to pick with each other, it was nice that they could forgive each other and move on. Anna didn't have to be Kate's lifeline any more and Sara could live down being sued by her own daughter.
I see this as an absolute win!
Rather than forgiving, I sure as hell hope Sarah apoligized like her life depended on it
I have no doubt that she did.
@@detective8205 I agree I understand what lead her to do such an awful thing. But knowing that Kate wished to die. She should be beyond sorry for using her daughter like that
@@detective8205 sara is not the one who gets to forgive anna Is
@@brooklynconnell1803 yeah that obvious
In this scene, you can really tell that Anna’s family has reconnected and they can see the importance of what it means to be a family. They’re trying to see the good in this and move on as well.
i think both endings are needed, they both bring different perspectives and shows what wouldve happened w one sister and not the other. i think the author did a beautiful job in this.
I've been on dialysis for 22 years and the only thing I've ever learned is that we all die, all of us.
I could never forgive my mother if she pulled the shit she did
i just watched this movie with my boyfriend and i've never cried this much at a movie before. i cried the whole way through this
i dont believe one second that the mother was sad and desperated about annas death. She is a completely narcistic person.She got what she want in the end and thats all what matters to her.She knew from the start were she decided to get a baby to save kate that perhaps something could go wrong with the surgery and she was very willingly to take the risk. This book is not a drama ist a thriller about a mother who created a child to killed it willingly in the end.
Thank u finally some sense in these comments!!
I HATEEE the books ending. Poor Anna she didn’t even live that long
She did when she was a baby she lived for years
I wished she never talked to her parents again. What they did was awful. I do like the message…when I was younger I thought it was sad but now I understand it….
How could a parent do such a thing? I've seen examples of parents attempting to move mountains to save their children but being oblivious to the landslide they create in doing so. I can understand that a parent loves their children but that love shouldn't lead to hurting them, whether it be emotionally or physically. Some will argue that their heart was in the right place but one cannot ignore the raw abuse you witness.
the sun shining down at them is Kate
I much prefer this ending. I hated the book ending. With Anna's death and Kate's survival, everything Anna was fighting for was essentially deemed worthless. The freedom she'd been bravely trying to attain for the entire novel was completely eradicated upon her death, rendering the message of the book completely meaningless. I would've much preferred the book to end like this as it delivers the moral that freedom is worth fighting for.
Wrong, IDIOT! The book ending shows us that GOD ALONE decides who lives and who dies!
MYGOD!! This part ALWAYS makes me CRY!! so beautiful
Everyone else is mad because of the ending change, but I'm mad because they changed Jesse's character and he was one of the most relatable characters for me, personally. I have two younger sisters, one of which is ill and has been in and out of hospital a few times in the past. I acted out for the attention I never got growing up and it was a nice thing to see and be able to relate to.
I can understand the mothers perspective but she really pisses me off sometimes. How could anybody choose one child over another, and to consciously "manufacture" a child for the sole purpose of keeping the other alive is barbaric. I understand the mother loved her daughter but she was delusional.
Just thankful that I have not had to be in that mothers position and hope I never am. Can’t judge something as unimaginable as what she was going through.
She pissed everyone else period.
@@loopyloops1985 oh yes I am can she was a jerk. She deserves no sympathy.
Honestly everyone is saying that this ending is better than the book but just watch if this was just a smidge more realistic the mom and dad are either gonna hate anna in the future once the happiness dies down or even more realistically anna grows up amd cuts off her parents for everything that happened and call them the absolute scum they are.
I do think the movie's ending is better than the book's, but it's still not ideal. You're right: there should have been resentment and complcations.
But they had to wrap it up with limited runtime, and for me at least this ending is better in comparison to the book's.
My heart has broken into tiny pieces that only my sister can super glue back together. MY EYES USED TO BE DRY
We had to watch this movie in school for a class about controversial subjects. We had to discuss the moral and ethical problems with having a child that serves only as 'spare parts' for another person, or letting that other person suffer and die of cancer. It was incredibly difficult for all of us since many of us had family members who had gone through cancer, some who even lost that battle. Some people said they would have done what Kate's mother did and had a designer baby to save the person with cancer, while others said that it's immoral and wrong to tamper with genes to create a human who is essentially just a ready made donor. I see both sides, and that's why this movie is so hard to watch. Because the whole time, you desperately want to see Kate live, but you also feel how just disgusting it feels to watch Anna suffer for the sake of saving Kate. I found that when we watched this in class, I was the only one truly balling because I could see how hard it would be to be faced with that situation, and ultimately have to choose....
When I was 11, my brother died of an unknown virus. We think it may have been coronavirus, some say it was different. He was only 14 years old. I miss him every day and the ending to this movie basically explains how I feel. He may be gone but our relationship continues. And I do have hope that one day we will see each other again in heaven.
The movie would have been better had the mother went to jail & was disowned by the entire family. She is evil, and her forgiveness was not earned.
Who else is crying...
Its not the child’s responsibility to cater to their parents selfishness
id never forgive the mother
Children should never be born to save the life a sibling. Life is more precious than that.
Everytime I watch this clip I can't help but cry every single time.
I like this ending sooooo much better
When I first watched the film , i cried. Watching it now brings shivers down my spine and tears into my eyes.
I will listen to this every time
This ending is better.
I think it's important to remember that the parents didn't know how long Kate's illness would last. In their minds, it might have been, ok, we have another baby, take marrow/ blood transfusions from her for a year or so, and then Kate can recover and we'll have 3 healthy happy kids, all of whom we'll love. They didn't know Kate would be sick for the next 12 years, and at what point do you give up? I'm not saying what they did was okay, but I can understand how you could justify it if you were desperate.
I agree you never wanna give up, ever. My mother was practically a vegetable but I never wanted to give up
No you can't understand using your other child she was a crappy mom.
it is monstrous to birth a child just to be a donor. no matter how desperate you are.
it wasn’t really about when to give up. it was about the moral question of how long are you supposed to put the “savior” sibling through all that before you start questioning what’s right? what definitely wasn’t right the manipulation of a child to be able to do it.
@@Hunlover123601Quite so..That's also a form of child abuse if you think about it.
She's a very forgiving human.
I feel this ending is actually sadder. This poor child will live knowing she was spare. Niggled with doubt about how much love hee mother would have had for her if her sister had survived.
To those who are wondering. the song is by Aaron Zigman - Opening
I would of never forgiven her mother if I was her and I know that’s just me but god I wouldn’t even be able to look at her
I first read the book I was inspired and I had many goose bumps, and then for the movie I cried at the ending of it.
Can’t imagine losing a sibling I’d die I’d rather lose anyone else than a sibling that’s the other me on earth
I lost a sibling
Kris Rhood So sorry
This was so sad now i cant stop crying cuz i have a sister with cancer and i will always love her:..)-3
At least in this ending (while different from the book) the older sister got her wish.
Don’t even remember a bit of this scene besides the song because I was straight up SOBBING
Sweet and beautiful eulogy.
those who have never been to have a good sister will never understand, i have a sister who is 10 years apart, we are not living together anymore, we are so far apart, cross the ocean, when i miss her , i cannot just cry in her arms anymore, and no one is gonna to tell me it is okay she is there, i miss her so much that at night there is no one hold me to sleep and no one i have to weak up, what i can do, call her and cry to her? i am so weak without her to tell me to be strong
I cry every single time at this scene.
One of my fave films ❤️
This is as far as I can go until the very end of the movie to have peace in my life. 🙂
This scene breaks my heart every time :'(
omg this is one of the scenes that made me cry my eyes out . :')
such a sad movie, I know with losing a loved one, how hard it is. It's one of the hardest things to go through
Oh god! I cried every time i watched this ending!
I started sobbing like right away! This is such a sad movie
I watched 2019. What nice movie 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
one of my favorites films
I love u all...my precious ones.
Honestly, I prefer the ending in the book where Anna died. It really caught me in surprise and still does, the fact that everyone is expecting Kate to die, and Sara and Brian lived all those years getting ready to lose Kate but in the end, it was Anna who left. And as she was brain dead, Campbell used his power as attorney to donate Anna's kidney to Kate. So, Kate lives, and managed to graduate from school and all and her words, "Someone had to leave, and Anna took my place," that really touched my heart. With Anna's kidney in her body, Kate brings her wherever she go. :')
did anna died because she donated her kidney? i would love to read the book but the thing is im not a bookworm :/ for some reason i dont like reading novels cuz its like hard to imagine those words with no pictures, so could u plz tell me how did anna died in the book?
Evolusaw PE: no, Anna died as a result of a Car Accident
+evolusaw PE Anna was in a car crash and was put on life support. The doctors told Brian and Sara that Anna was brain dead so that's when they decided to donate Anna's kidney to Kate. Kate gets the kidney and she survives. Personally I prefer the movies ending but that's just me I suppose.
I hate the books ending, always will. It dimished Anna's life. I hated it.
It is kind of like the movie , I forget the name. debra winger played the mom and she had cancer and it was a true story but the daughter dies at the end in Columbine CO. It was tragic and so sad
i love the movie and the
book
I just can't stop crying
I can never watch this movie without crying
I had to take a break from reading Jodi Picoult books after this one.
I have to admit, I almost never read books before the film adaptations. But I usually find the books to be better than the films. In my college sociology class, we were supposed to read one of the four required books and write a report. My Sister's Keeper was one of them and now I wish I had read it then.
I never read the book, and know nothing about it. What I do know is that I have seen a lot of movies in my life, and left this movie in the theatre strongly believing that this was not only the best movie I had ever seen, but it wasn't even close. I still believe this.
@seenoong I understand and agree with your points, however, I have a comment to add about the last reason; My best friend's older sister was 14 when she had Leukimia but she survived, and now she is a very healthy 19 year old who's enjoying university.
The family just doesn't seem whole without her
The Ending Is Beautiful And Pretty
we were doing about 'test tube babies' in science and we watched this and me and my friend were bawling our eyes out. but were at the front row so no one could see us crying XD sad film. really sad.
Dear Buddies,
I haven't read the book but my "sissy"(my sister's name is Sissy : ) ) told me about the book.
i just rewatched it. about for the 100th time.
when i most hardly cried was the scene when they're on the beach.
i'm not sure but i think it's the first time i watched it with original langauge.
keep Letting this feeling infusing your soul. the feeling of heart-warming stories.
I love you Jessie
ABIGAIL BRESLIN IS THE BEST TEEN ACTRESS IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!
why did they have to change the ending? people are saying the book ending was predictabe but it wasn't!I thought they were going to let Kate die peacefully -as she wished- but then Ana ends up dieing and when Kate tells us how everything turned out I bawled my eyes out because in her car ride with Campbell I felt like everything was going to b fine...they changed a lot of the book...for example the dog was a german shepard, Campbell never made a commercial, the brother was more involved in the story, and what I already mentioned the ending is different
Yeah. Book's ending was much much much better
I agree.
I've heard a lot of complaints about the book ending, but I've never seen anyone say it was predictable. The crash kind of came out of nowhere.
The book ending was bad in mt opinion because it rendered Anna's and in turn Kate efforts for naught. Anna also would had donated a kidney anyway, killing her wasn't needed. In the end anna died as a object, lifeline, not a actual person Sara bad parenting was rewarded. Anna's death also only prolonged the inevitable, Kate realistically most likely face future complications and without Anna she might not last that long.
The point of the book's ending is that sometimes life doesn't work out the way you want it, but just move forward
in the book, it was Anna who died and NOT kate!! :/ i was sooo surprised to see the movie!
We have the same feeling...
I can't watch this film it was too hard for me it just broke me as a human being
Kate's mother shaved her hair because Kate felt, due to her lack of hair, that she was ugly. Her mother shaved off her own hair to show Kate that she was beautiful, and that she would always right there beside her, through everything she went through.
It isn't offensive. It's a selfless sacrifice made by a mother who wants nothing more then to keep her daughter healthy, and happy.
What's the name of the song that plays in the final scene of this movie?
I love the ending of the movie much more than the book :)
i hav never cried so hard at a movie scene before so heart breaking fuck cancer )':