Quote:
"In the final shot of [Loyalties], set amid the untamed Northern Alberta landscape, Lily arrives at Beatrice and Roseanne's house with all four of her children packed in the car. The normally pristine Lily is a mess. Roseanne sees her pain and shame and instructs Lily's children to go into the house. 'Go with Kookum. She'll take care of you.' Lily says to Roseanne, 'I couldn't stay. He's still there.' Roseanne embraces Lily as a sister, one mother to another. Roseanne says, 'Don't worry about it. We got plenty of room, eh.' The two mothers are framed in a medium two-shot while they embrace. Wheeler has the women exit the frame together. Wheeler cuts to an extreme bird's-eye-view wide angle of Beatrice's dilapidated wood-frame house. Roseanne and Lily walk into the house together, arm in arm. Wheeler constructs the film's resolution in the mothers' solidarity, which has managed to cross the lines of race and class. This resolution becomes possible only when Lily refuses to be complicit in patriarchy and colonization."
-- Kathleen Cummins

Source:
Cummins, Kathleen. Herstories on Screen: Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths. New York: Wallflower, 2020. (p. 203)