How Home Alone Shows the Stress of Holidays On Introverts
Home Alone and Vulnerable: Today’s Youth Wouldn’t Hear Intruders Through Their Headphones
The Benefits of Teaching Practical Problem-Solving Skills to Millennials
Why Shaming Fuller for Bedwetting is Actually an Effective Technique
The Macaroni and Cheese Scene is an Allegory for Food Wastage in America
Groups of White People Running Through Airports Without Being Stopped
Why “The Wet Bandits” is a Subtle Nod to Unfulfilled Female Sexuality
The Effects of Unemployment and Suburban Sprawl on Premeditated Crime
Does Kevin McCallister Fully Utilise the Power of The Secret?
Kevin Would Not Have Been Left Behind if Division of Labour Was Equitably Split Between Genders
“Filthy Animals”: We Need to Stop Using Neglected Animals As Insults
The Problematic Portrayal of Gangster-Americans
Polka Musicians and Empathy: An Interactive Graph
How the South Bend Shovel Slayer Shows the Benefits of Getting to Know Your Community
They Shouldn’t Let Kevin Just Eat Plain Cheese Pizza: On the Importance of an Experienced Palate in a Multicultural Society
“You Guys Give Up, Or You Thirsty For More?”: How Home Alone Predicted the Tinder Age
When Harry Met Marv: The Problem With Portrayals of Male Friendship Onscreen
Finally, A Christmas Movie That Is Actually About the Need For Pizza Delivery Unions
I’m adding the last one to my Marxist critique of Home Alone (look how ruthless the wealthy McCallisters are in protecting their vast personal property!)
I want to read “When Harry Met Marv” so bad.
I almost couldn’t click through because I have So Many Feelings about introvert thinkpieces and I was very very afraid.
they made Kilgrave’s first name Kevin in the Jessica Jones series as a heavy-handed crossover nod, right? parental abandonment leads to self-hatred, directed outward into wanton disregard for human life, pleasure in cruelty and power beyond his youth’s ability to handle humanely, and eventually full-blown sociopathy. and also he’s much the same in Jessica Jones. I only hesitate to say this because there’s such a good chance everybody wrote this tedious think piece already for real.
Or created a webseries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh7-wAy_8ss
I wouldn’t waste five minutes watching it you can read av club’s summary here http://www.avclub.com/article/home-alones-kevin-m…
Edited to fix the links
A piece about how free-range parenting would have made Kevin a self-sufficient young man who trusts his neighbors, which provokes at least five outraged response thinkpieces about how no competent parent would EVER let a child out of the house alone in such a crime-ridden neighborhood.
“Home Alone and Vulnerable: Today’s Youth Wouldn’t Hear Intruders Through Their Headphones”
I mentally approved this one so hard I think I turned into an old lady.
OKAY BUT THE MACARONI AND CHEESE LOOKED SO FUCKING GOOD IT MAKES ME ANGRY TO THIS DAY HE DIDN’T EAT ANY OF IT
I came down here to say this. That scene will always make me so very angry. It looks so good and he doesn’t even get ONE LITTLE BITE.
“Is My Toothbrush Approved By The American Dental Association And Other Questions We Should Know How To Find The Answer To”
That plain cheese pizza he gets all for himself was my ultimate fantasy as a child, and now I get plain cheese pizzas for myself all the time, so dreams come true guys.
That plain cheese pizza he gets all for himself was my ultimate fantasy as a child, and now I get plain cheese pizzas for myself all the time, so dreams come true guys.
Where Fear Comes From: Home Alone & the Phobia of Being Left.
too real
I had never actually watched Home Alone as a child, my boyfriend made me watch it the other night and I ended up having a panic attack because HOLY CRAP that was my worst childhood fear. So, yeah. Phobia is right.
It was a pretty well entrenched fear before that, but limited to “judgment day is coming, what if I lose track of my mom and dad and sister in the crowd, surely Jesus will help me find them and also let me bring my stuffed walrus to heaven.” After Home Alone it was no longer a purely end of the world obsessive thought pattern.
Thanks! I've been meaning to watch that but now that I read about it my obligation is fulfilled.
I came down here to say this. That scene will always make me so very angry. It looks so good and he doesn't even get ONE LITTLE BITE.
Why Did the Filmmakers Think the Audience Needed a Weird Super Obvious Physical Distinction to Recognize Joe Pesci, One of the Most Recognizable Actors in the World?
I had never actually watched Home Alone as a child, my boyfriend made me watch it the other night and I ended up having a panic attack because HOLY CRAP that was my worst childhood fear. So, yeah. Phobia is right.
BEC this is so so good <3
“Kevin Would Not Have Been Left Behind if Division of Labour Was Equitably Split Between Genders”
That goes way beyond a decent joke about the movie into a really good point that I never connected before.