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Memorable Quotes
Are you together?
— Classmate
Context:
Asked by a girl in the school courtyard during their first week of secondary school.
Meaning:
This simple, invasive question serves as the inciting incident that shatters the boys' unlabelled paradise by imposing a binary adult perspective onto a fluid childhood bond.
You're like brothers.
— Classmate
Context:
Said during the same courtyard interrogation as a follow-up to the dating question.
Meaning:
An attempt to categorize their relationship in a way that is socially acceptable, yet even this label fails to capture the unique depth of their connection.
Mexico.
— Rémi
Context:
Rémi says this when the boys are imagining where they would go if they could travel the world together.
Meaning:
Represents the unfulfilled promise of a future together and the innocent escapism they shared before the world intruded.
It's my fault.
— Léo
Context:
Léo confesses this to Sophie while they are in her car, shortly before they embrace in the woods.
Meaning:
The ultimate climax of the film; Léo finally breaks his silence and takes responsibility for the distance he created, allowing his healing to begin.