Picture Day is a movie about a late teenager/ young adult who has failed grade twelve and is repeating it again. This movie is about conflict and resolution. In a way it is about an individual who is born without many chances. Her mother does not really seem to know that she exists and she does not have any real friends to support her. She does not have any hobbies to keep her going, nor any commitments. She is floating through life in a kind of a danger zone. Is this part of growing up? Or is it something deeper? Does she have traits of mental illness, or is this all a part of the trials and tribulations of growing up? Without loving parents to question these traits in their daughter - no one is to really know. Towards the end of the movie things kind of do seem to pan out a little bit - but there are clearly personal boundaries that have been crossed. This movie is somewhat like the Canadian movie Exotica by Atom Egoyan. Perhaps this movie, Picture Day is like a typical Canadian movie - whereby the Canadian identity is not rooted in a personal history but rather by external situations in life which seem to form the otherwise formless Canadian identity.
Review of Picture Day
Picture Day
(2012)
Picture Day 2012 is a Canadian Movie about a girl growing up
17 February 2015
Warning: Spoilers