Home Alone...after all these years
Home Alone Rewatching this film with kids who are now of an age to enjoy and equally fantasize with Kevin is awesome. One of the things that really makes this film cook is how painfully real the family angst is in the opening scene leading up to Kevin being left behind. Those arguments, those awful things said in heated moments are real, shameful and wonderfully human. They add depth and reality to a film that is could be misunderstood by its marketing to just be a cutesy holiday film. Credit John Hughes there – that man bled beautiful and often painful reality onto the screen with perfectly timed comedy to diffuse the darkness. The fantasy that follows the opening mishap can be defined by the classic morality line of “be careful what you ask for”. It’s played to great effect by the entire cast. What Hughes gets out of Macauly Culkin defined childhood for almost an entire generation. The film isn’t without its speed bumps. The father (John Heard) is a bit too quick to give...