"I don't wanna go back to how things were"

Proceeds to do the same things over and over again, obtains the same results, gets stuck in a never ending cycle. Smart 👍

Since many people are talking and this story has a lot of movie references I believe the fact that they sleep in closets can be under the same idea used in the movie "Room" where the kid slept in a closet so when the kidnapper came into the room he wouldn't see/hear him.

Also, the relationship between the blond and Boss gives HUGE Leon and Matilda vibes from the movie "Leon, the professional" which is cute but if you happen to see the picture well... we'll hope their destinies differ from the movie's.

Aaand since I'm dumping things here, the treatment referenced or used by the blond is from "A Clockwork Orange" called "The Ludovic Treatment". It kind of works the same way as some conversion therapy treatments that were actually perfomed on homosexual patients (between 1920s and 1960s) but The Ludovic Treatment (book internal time, 1970s) was used to extermine evil rather than homosexuality. Basically they were given medicine that'd make them sick and show pictures (violence, ra**, murder in A Clockwork Orange; homosexual s**, pictures of naked man, their lovers, etc in Conversion Treatments), tricking the brain into believing that those things shown were the ones making them ill so the person would avoid them. Those treatments were inhuman and the results led to the loss of many lives, same can be seen in A Clockwork Orange with Alex's spiral into depression afterwards.

That's all from my report. Happy holidays :)