Brotherly Love 'And My Sister's Keeper'

Secrets and lies is a major issue that has caused many families to break and causes chaos between family members. This is a theme which has been shown in the four films that i have studied which are ‘Secrets and Lies’ directed and written by Mike Leigh, ‘Brotherly Love’ directed and written by Jamal Hill, Abduction directed by John Singleton and written by Shawn Christensen and ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ directed by Nick Cassavetes and written by Jeremy Leven and Nick Cassavetes. The theme of secrets and lies in a broken family is portrayed throughout these four films where they each have their own way of hiding emotions and trust issues from each other which lead these families too many secrets and lies. This is such an important theme because everyday secrets are being kept from people and lies are told easily fooling people and in this case in …show more content…
This theme is also significant to me because family is very important to me, this theme has allowed me to see the different obstacles families go through all because they love each other.

Two of the films that is have studied which are ‘Brotherly Love’ and ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ both connect and relate to each other because they share the same theme of secrets and lies in a family which cause the family to go through major downfalls and emotions. ‘Brotherly Love’ is a film about how the eldest brother has to look out for his younger siblings and his mother and to do this he gets involved in gangs and lives the ‘hood’ life living dangerously trying to provide for his family ever since his father passed away. The eldest brother names June did everything he could for his family to be fed, sheltered and have things that they needed and wanted, he put his mum and siblings before himself and believed that he had to step up and be the man of the house and do what he could to make the dreams of his siblings come