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No one understands Rémi as much as the people who get labeled “too sensitive” for genuinely expressing the most human feelings in such a dead, performative world. I hate that society conditions us, at such a young age, to put ourselves into boxes, to label every feeling we have for someone, and to sexualise us so early. Léo and Rémi have such a strong bond and love each other so deeply and purely, and whether that love was ever meant to be romantic or not, I hate that it gets sexualised at such a young age, and that they’re rushed into understanding things they shouldn’t even have to question yet. Why does it have to be so “wrong” for two young boys to show an innocent, tender love for each other without it being seen as “too much”, labelled, or read in a sexual way? Why do people automatically turn a strong feeling for someone into something that has to be tied to sexual intimacy, instead of just seeing it as a genuine expression of love in all the forms it can take? Rémi is so young, and so unprepared for the cruelty of this world as a hypersensitive kid in a culture that expects you to perform, detach, act cool, “man up”, when all he really values is being able to express his love. He doesn’t care what other people might think; the only person who truly matters to him is Léo, because they make each other feel important. For Rémi, that kind of unique human connection is more precious than any social image. Léo, on the other hand, seems more torn between that bond and how he wants to be seen as a boy among other boys. And when their relationship starts drifting apart, when his safe place begins to slip away, Rémi simply cannot bear it …