Su Friedrich's "Sink or Swim"

Su Friedrich's "Sink or Swim" is by far the most emotional film that I have seen in class this semester. The feelings and emotions of that film is what involved me the most in this film, not its innovative and original structure. I could relate to it because of its emotional depth and complex story of a dysfunctional childhood of a girl and how she manages to deal with her dysfunctional dad when she becomes a woman. One of the themes that was pretty apparent was that "history repeats itself", at the time when the woman meets her half-sister. She sees that the damage that was done by the bad parenting of her father is affecting the life of her half-sister in the same way.