But the part we always forget is that the robber was the “cop” that had come to the house the night before the trip.
So this kid was like the cops are so corrupt I have to deal with this on my own.
That's a really good point I never thought of.
Is it realistic that he didn't have any other friends / trusted adults in the community?
As a movie though the suspension of disbelief is pretty good. Phone lines are down, neighbors are on vacation too, ...
The McAllister's are rich as hell. All their friends are too. The whole neighborhood went on vacation except that one old guy.
Didn’t even think of that. You’re right.
and that's what we should all learn from him
Didn’t the storm knock the phone lines out? That’s why Moira didn’t call the house and called the cops to try and get them to do a wellness check.
Yes.
This movie is nearly bulletproof. John Hughes thought of every plausible hole and plugged it. He was a genius.
He calls and orders a pizza
Because later the lines get fixed.
No, he could not call the police. A tree fell on his phone line and disconnected his house.
And his parents did notify the police, but the police were, A: completely incredulous, B: completely incompetent and uninterested. They came and knocked on the door, but Kevin was still scared and confused and was hiding under his parents bed the whole time. The cop just gave up and left.
Source: I watched the movie again... and I am going to do so this year along with a Die Hard trilogy (I never watched the third movie) marathon.
Also one of the robbers scoped out the place disguised as a cop and already spooked him.
Die Hard With a Vengeance isn’t a Christmas movie but IMHO it’s the best of the series
Kevin is a shop lifter after he panics with the tooth brush. Since he learned never to trust cops, he assumes he'd get thrown in jail like the hardened criminal he is... And then there's the cop who's trying to break into his house. Yeah, can't blame him for not making that call.
Yeah, the first movie pretty clearly lays out why he didn’t want to call the cops. Also, IIRC, the snow storm knocked out the phone lines. His parents mention that they can’t get ahold of him because the lines are down. So he couldn’t have called them even if he tried.
The second movie though? He was a predator stalking his prey. He wasn’t just a victim of a break-in. He actively lured them to his twisted funhouse, and didn’t call the cops until the very end when he wanted them to get caught red-handed.
He learned what he was good at... And what he enjoyed.
He has a particular set of skills.
The McAllisters are the family he gets sent to live with after the good son.
That movie is fucked
Didn't he not trust the cops because Pesci pretended to be a cop in the opening scene, in order to case the house?
"One call and he would've been safe"
By calling the cops? Lol, good joke.
Nah, it's because he knows one fundamental truth: ACAB. Especially the sleezy one with the gold tooth.
Or he was just too afraid to contact the police. Remember, this took place in the USA, where people have reason to fear them.
He did call the police
And the quality of the police work was documentary level realism for a Hollywood movie.
This is Kevin now. Feel.old yet?
He couldn't have phoned anyone! The phone line was out!
While 911 as an emergency number in the US began in 1968, it wasn't universal until 1999. Home Alone came out in 1990. It was completely normal in my youth (earlier, yes, but still) to just not know what the number to call the police was.
Could dial 0 to call the operator for directory assistance and be connected.
Could, yes. In 1990, the standard was to call 411 if you needed to find a phone number. And that often cost money, so parents would drum into their kids not to call 411. "We have 411 at home. ::slams phone book on table::"
Which means they'd have had a phone book, and everyone knew where it was. Sometimes local police/fire/hospital emergency numbers were printed on the cover, or on the first page. If not, there'd be a place on the cover where you could write them in yourself. They'd also come with a refrigerator magnet sign that you could write in with marker later on.
I'm not saying any of this to be disagreeable; there are a zillion plot holes in that movie. Just reminiscing with some late 1980s "day in the life" nostalgia.
Now get off my lawn.
one call [to the police] and he would have been safe
just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's fantasy
And also he couldn't have called anyone, the phone line was out.
Well, he is a white kid in an affluent neighborhood (whole huge family affording vacation, large house), so he probably would have been treated better.
He thinks his family actually disappeared. He remarks that they couldn't have gone to Paris, because their cars are still in the garage. The garage having been left open is even a plot point, to allow Kevin to make this realization quicker.
He does eventually call the police. It's the last step of his plan. He calls them to his neighbor's house.
The movie is seriously bulletproof. Like how Kevin spills Pepsi on his ticket and we see it accidentally get thrown in the garbage the night before.
Fun story:
When my daughter met Santa Claus for the first time, she'd recently seen Home Alone and was obsessed, and she introduced herself as Kevin.
When it was time to take a picture I said, "Ok [daughter's name which in all fairness does have an "ev" sound in it], get in Santa's sleigh."
Then Santa leaned over and whispered, "Ohh. I thought she said her name was Kevin."
"Yeah, no, she did say Kevin."
Santa thought that was weird.
Kevin was smart enough to know you don't call the police.
that guys middle name? Macaulay Culkin.
Remember when Macauley Culkin was in a pizza-based Velvet Underground cover band that played versions of their songs but made them about pizza? lol I think it was called The Pizza Underground.
I saw a picture of him recently and he's looking pretty healthy, which is good because he was in rough shape for a while there.
He knew the police would likely put him into child protective services due to parental negligence and decided he'd deal with that shit himself.
Nah, they were rich.
America, Police, Safe. Hmmm.
Kevin: Hello officer, I was left alone at home.
Officer: Sure kid, let me call for someone to pick you up... Zed? The spider just caught a little fly.
Kevin went full ACAB.
The Good Son theory of Home Alone.
Prepping for the Good Son movie role
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