“Imagine you’re a baby duck who just hatched from its egg. All the other ducks are yellow, and you’re yellow too, but much prettier than the others. You’re special. One day, you try to leave and you meet a lizard. You think he’s strange, but you like him because he has a special color too. So the two of you leave together, jumping on a trampoline all the way to the stars.”
léo had to lie to his classmates just to survive their questions and the constant pressure of being outnumbered. Every scene stressed me out because you could feel him slowly suffocating under everyone else’s expectations.
then Rémi started crying during recess and wanted to hit Léo, I understood him so deeply. I’m going through something similar right now, watching some of my friendships drift away, so much that sometimes I cry too, or want to punch a wall because I don’t know what to do with all that sudden change.
and then, it happened.
I genuinely couldn’t believe it. without any control, I started tearing up. when he woke up, I held my breath and thought, “oh, it was just a nightmare.” but it wasn’t.
another heartbreaking detail is the way Rémi’s mother looks at Léo. every single time, her eyes are full of tears. It’s like she sees both the boy who survived and the boy she lost at the same time.
two boys can love each other deeply, and the world immediately tries to make it something shameful. The movie shows how quickly outside judgment can destroy everything. Lukas Dhont doesn’t make villains out of children; he shows how cruelty can come from silence, discomfort, peer pressure, and the fear of being seen as different.
this movie reminded me that people never say what they feel until it’s too late.
“Imagine you’re a baby duck who just hatched from its egg. All the other ducks are yellow, and you’re yellow too, but much prettier than the others. You’re special. One day, you try to leave and you meet a lizard. You think he’s strange, but you like him because he has a special color too. So the two of you leave together, jumping on a trampoline all the way to the stars.”
léo had to lie to his classmates just to survive their questions and the constant pressure of being outnumbered. Every scene stressed me out because you could feel him slowly suffocating under everyone else’s expectations.
then Rémi started crying during recess and wanted to hit Léo, I understood him so deeply. I’m going through something similar right now, watching some of my friendships drift away, so much that sometimes I cry too, or want to punch a wall because I don’t know what to do with all that sudden change.
and then, it happened.
I genuinely couldn’t believe it. without any control, I started tearing up. when he woke up, I held my breath and thought, “oh, it was just a nightmare.” but it wasn’t.
another heartbreaking detail is the way Rémi’s mother looks at Léo. every single time, her eyes are full of tears. It’s like she sees both the boy who survived and the boy she lost at the same time.
two boys can love each other deeply, and the world immediately tries to make it something shameful. The movie shows how quickly outside judgment can destroy everything. Lukas Dhont doesn’t make villains out of children; he shows how cruelty can come from silence, discomfort, peer pressure, and the fear of being seen as different.
this movie reminded me that people never say what they feel until it’s too late.
