Textual Analysis - My Sister's Keeper

The film opens with a montage of videos and still frame images of pictures of a character's life showing the audience key events. This use of montage creates a more personal touch to the film as the audience is almost watching home footage of the family and going through their photo albums this connects both the character and the audience on a personal level. The images are shown inorderly, not in chronological order showing there is confusion in the character's mind. This montage scene is narrated to tell the story of the characters life so far giving the audience the understanding of how the character feels so they can follow. Then we see a medium long shot of the young girl sat on a bench looking out over the lake. The lake acts as the character's emptiness which we later discover to be her sister's death. The use of fading transitions are used throughout showing the emotion of the character. The montage sequence is filmed and edited so that the audience feel closer as if they have a relationship themselves with the character. I feel this is to be a very typical example of a drama film as it has both a montage of the character's life and a narration for the audience to understand the story up to the point were the film begins. I tried my best to find a link to post on this post but was unsuccessful - sorry.