I thought the same thing after seeing the American version, it just seemed like a understandable case of a childhood crush that Leon reacts to with equally understandable awkwardness.
Then I watched the director’s preferred version. It’s pedo bait and he’s a legally proven pedophile who “married” a child he met when she was 12 and who was pregnant and married by 16, end of story.
I thought the same thing after seeing the American version, it just seemed like a understandable case of a childhood crush that Leon reacts to with equally understandable awkwardness.
Then I watched the director’s preferred version. It’s pedo bait and he’s a legally proven pedophile who “married” a child he met when she was 12 and who was pregnant and married by 16, end of story.