A Colony

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Audience Member This is a coming-of-age story about a girl named Mylia, and her bright, exuberant, and uninhibited younger sister Camille, and their parents, as they move to a rural part of the Quebec countryside outside of Montréal. It's much less flashy and in-your-face than other coming-of-age stories, and also has a somewhat subtle cultural undertone and a societal message which others may lack. It really is about society, like the film implies early on. Mylia gets caught between wanting to be accepted by the in-crowd, led by a girl named Jacinthe, which exposes her to a world of spiked drinks, premature and forced sexualization, and being inauthentic with herself, and in contrast, partaking in a more healthy relationship and life path with the blunt, yet very percieving, knowing, and understanding First Nations boy she sits next to in History class, Jimmy. Mylia wrestles with this new environment, these opposing forces and her growing feelings of friendship mixed with love and fondness for Jimmy, a boy from a Native American family who will never have any standing with the school leaders. His perceptiveness and gentle ways with little Camille are in sharp contrast to his outbursts of anger at the casual racism of his peers, which is painfully reflected in the history books they read in school. But he recognizes the introverted Mylia as a kindred spirit when he asks her if she was one of the kids who "colored outside the lines." In the conclusion of the film, he's also hinted to have appeared to become a more natural and healthy outlet for a sexual/romantic awakening for Mylia, rather than the one in Jacinthe's world which did not seem as natural or healthy. Eventually, she follows that more earnest relationship she shares with Jimmy and her sister Camille, and becomes a more confident individual, set to become a better adult. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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