是真實個案還是創作呢？

是真實個案還是創作呢？



前些時介紹今個暑期在北美上映的電影，My Sister's Keeper 引起我的注意，讀完雅虎 Movies 的簡介，寫下了:

但小本的製作的，沒有雷聲的，也有幾部 Catch my eyes 介紹如下。。。。：

My Sister's Keeper 北美六月廿六日 Trailers & Clips 有 Cameron Diaz 演媽媽, Abigail Breslin 演細女兒 Anna，而 Alec Baldwin 演律師。故事是頗具爭議性的課題，媽媽的大女兒 Kate，生下來就患有白血病 leukemia, 于是夫婦兩人就決定生下細女兒 Anna，由細女兒捐贈骨髓，幫助大女兒繼續生存。細女兒年幼時已受盡捐贈者的折磨，但因為年幼而沒有能力反抗。 到了長大些，細女兒 Anna 就找來一位律師，代表她向法庭提出，申請自決的可能性。嘩！凈睇個介紹已經好吸引，在港上映時，都會挖埋荷包，科水入場看看。



這令到我繼續上網查找多一些資料，想知道多些。

My Sister's Keeper 小說 by：Jodi Picoult


維基百科：Anna was conceived as a "harvest child" and genetically engineered, through in vitro fertilization, so that she would be a genetic match for her older sister Kate, who was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia when she was two years old.

When Anna was born, her cord blood was donated to her sister, but when the leukemia returned she then had to donate blood and bone marrow. Kate's kidneys fail when she is sixteen and Anna is thirteen. Kate's only chance for survival is a kidney transplant.

Because she would be a closer match than an unrelated donor and no other family member is a match, Anna is expected to donate one of her own kidneys to save her sister.

Anna decides to hire a lawyer to become medically emancipated from her parents in order to gain the right to make the decision for herself. Her lawyer, Campbell Alexander, works for her pro bono.

At the end of the book it is revealed that the reason Anna initiated the lawsuit was because her sister didn't want her to donate the kidney. Kate said she no longer wanted to go through life in a hospital and was ready to die.

After the trial Anna is granted medical emancipation and Campbell is her medical advisory. However, immediately after the trial while Anna and Campbell are driving to the hospital, they are involved in a severe car accident, rendering Anna brain dead, while Campbell survives.

Campbell makes the decision to donate Anna's kidney to Kate after the doctors notify Anna's parents of her death.


至于 My Sister's Keeper 電影

維基百科：Conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was brought into the world to be a genetic match for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Their lives have been intertwined because of their donor-recipient relationship from the minute Anna was born. Anna suffers, such as losing the chance to go to a prestigious hockey camp in order to be there when her sister needs her, but when she turns 13 and Kate goes into renal failure, needing Anna's kidney, Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation.

Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin), who has a guide dog he refuses to reveal the function of, agrees to work for Anna pro bono.


讀完後深深嘆息，Sigh！ Sigh！ Sigh!


表面上祇是一個倫理故事，維基百科的兩篇介紹，都沒有指出故事，是改編自一個真實的個案，究竟在這世上有沒有，類同的事情是否正在發生呢？


窮困的國家，時常傳出，有人為了生活，賣出器官。甚至有醫學界的害群之馬，把無助的病人害死，偷取器官賺錢。殯儀業的也分一杯羹，把死者骨較偷出來發死人財。


器官捐贈這個課題，在社會上不停討論，中國人社會，認為齊齊整整來，就齊齊整整去，對于器官捐贈較為保守。在宣傳下捐血已變得平常，至于捐骨髓、捐肝、捐腎、捐眼角膜，都時有所聞。


而電影 The Island 就更加把問題，推得更加盡，一班畜牧在一個『小島』內的人類，生活無憂無慮，他們最大希望期待，就是被選中離開『小島』。 原來他們都是世界上的有錢人，利用自己的細胞 cloning，培養出來的 clones 復制人。 復制人的唯一生存價值，就是在主人需要器官移植時，harvest 收割器官，救活主人，這也是他們離開『小島』，得到極樂了。


生、老、病、死，是人生必經之路，利用藥物醫治生病，是理所當然。但利用捐贈接受器官，來延長生命，用死人的器官，甚至用生人的器官，利用科技人工來 manipulate 生命，只是延長在生時間，換得幾多次呢？我沒有結論！


人類一早就有長生不老，老而不死的夢想，電影 Bicentennial Man 就是探討 immortal 不死，這個課題。長生不老，老而不死，不老又不死，是否人生所追求的極樂呢？



伸延閱覽：
My Sister's Keeper 小說 維基百科
My Sister's Keeper 電影 維基百科
The Island 電影 維基百科


我的舊文：
再談2009北美影事
不老不死是否人生所追求的極樂呢？Bicentennial Man