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* [[Double Standard]]: In-universe one demonstrated in full at the end.

** Out-of-universe one in the form of the film's R-rating.

* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: They're a harmonious and loving bunch at the beginning, but Ludovic's gender troubles cause all kinds of discord, to the point that {{spoiler|he says he wants to live with his grandmother instead of his parents and his parents let him and consider leaving him with her when they move.}}

* [[Everything's Better with Sparkles]]: Ludovic loves and wants to be like Pam, a Barbie-like doll and children's TV character. She tends to trail sparkles in the air around her. On one occasion Ludo imagines her blowing sparkly air that ties up two interfering mothers and takes Ludo, in a pink dress, and Jerome flying through the air with her.

* [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]: Ludo dreams of wearing one to marry Jerome.

* [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]: Zoe's princess dress which Ludovic makes a grand entrance wearing.

* [[Imaginary Friend]]: Ludovic's daydreams of being rescued by Barbie-woman Pam.

* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: At the end of the film, Ludovic meets a boy named Chris -- short hair, shorts and T-shirt, catapult -- who turns out to be a girl named Christine. {{spoiler|During Chris's tenth birthday party she (or he, since he may be trans) makes Ludo swap costumes with her so that Chris is wearing the musketeer outfit and Ludovic the princess dress.}}

* [[Momma's Boy]]: Ludovic has a good relationship with his dad but seems especially close to his mother, also to his grandmother and older sister. This, along with his parents' wish for a girl as their last child, is a possible explanation for his attraction to all things feminine.

** However as a sort of lynch-mob mentality develops among their neighbors--[[Mama Bear|threatening the family's livelihood]]--Mom can no longer tolerate Ludovic's gender nonconformity. She begins unpredictably lashing out, [[Berserk Button|blaming (with shocking frankness)]] her child for their changing fortunes.

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* [[Truth in Television]]: Ludo's obsession with a Barbie-like character and love of pink dresses are realistic traits for a young transgirl or gender-variant boy.

** Likewise is her insisting that she's a girl.

** One might easily fail to grasp the full implications of [[Interrupted Suicide|Ludovic's intent, after he's discovered in the giant freezer]] in the carport. (It wasn't just a hiding place.) More-recent first-time viewers of the DVD are more likely to "get it," assuming they've followed the news in the past couple of years.

** One might easily fail to grasp the full implications of [[Interrupted Suicide|Ludovic's intent, after he's discovered in the giant freezer]] in the carport (it wasn't just a hiding place). More-recent first-time viewers of the DVD are more likely to "get it," assuming they've followed the news in the past couple of years.

* [[Youthful Freckles]]: Chris is freckle-faced.