Vi ser filmen: My sister's keeper

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Questions for the movie

1. What themes or issues stood out for you in this movie? Why?
2. Did you enjoy this movie? Why or why not?
3. To which situations and characters can you most closely relate?
4. What significance does the movie title have to the movie content? 
5. For residents who may have read the book and saw the movie, allow them to share their feelings about the changes between the two. 
6. Discuss the consequences, both positive and negative, of having a baby through in vitro fertilization with the intention to save another sibling’s life. What effect did it have on the family? 
7. Discuss how terminal diseases can tear a family apart. Has anyone had to deal with cancer in their immediate family? 
8. The movie shuffles the characters around through flashbacks. Discuss how Jesse’s dyslexia and the decision to send him to the school played a role in other family decisions. Was Jesse “lost in the shuffle”? 
9. Discuss implications of the physician counseling Sara on decisions she has to make regarding Kate. How does the hospice representative add to or detract from the grief Sara is feeling? 
10. Describe how this movie exemplifies the joys of living and of dying. 
11. Have you experienced the death of a loved one? If so, describe how this experience made you feel and how you coped. If not, have you thought about what it might be like? 
12. How did you feel when Jesse blurts out in the courtroom that Kate wants to die? 
13. Discuss the scene in the movie with Sara and Kate when Kate gives her the scrapbook at the hospital. How does this foreshadow their relationship? How can a gift, such as a scrapbook, express so much of the past as well as so much hope for the future? 
14. Discuss the implications & thoughts of your residents regarding genetic testing and IVF as a means to have a baby. 
15. How far will one go when they are wearing the (hypothetical) unrelenting blinders? When did Sara have them on? When did Brian?
16. How does Kate’s death strengthen the family? 
17. A number of relationships are portrayed in the movie. Spend time discussing the various relationships (Sara and Kelly, the siblings, Sara and Brian, Brian’s family, rebellion in the teens, Taylor and Kate, mother-daughter, etc). 
18. Kate is portrayed as a young girl with advanced cancer, so physically, she looks very sick. How were your residents affected by these scenes? (this will be especially poignant if they have very little personal experience with terminal illnesses) 
19. How does the film portray women? Is it positive or negative? Accurate? Why? How does the film portray Sara as a lawyer or Judge de Salvo?