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well I want to start talking about the movie because again as an adult the thing I noticed the most in terms of like the mechanics of a screenplay I'm always thinking about that about what the writer's thinking what they're using to inform the audience and they realize up front in 1990 this idea is crazy you should not buy this idea so from the very first minute they are justifying every choice that is happening to make these events fall into place and every time I i watch it i pick up a new one i see a new detail uh and i'm surprised how much they don't linger on things like when kevin's uh ticket
is thrown in the trash you see it for like five frames and they cut away you just think oh like they threw something away that's a shot of the mess they threw away but then if you rewind you see the ticket says kevin on it and you realize that's one step of the equation i think the one thing i noticed this time is like uh fuller the little piss kid is gonna sleep with kevin and then after kevin gets in trouble uh that's like the one bit bit of mercy his mom shows him is like fuller doesn't have to sleep with you but that's the reason why kevin is left home alone because it's one of the many things
that has to happen in order for kevin to be there without anyone seeing him or him seeing no one else yeah without fully there for the waking up yeah it it reminds me like how we did when we did back to the future together for for retronauts it was just counting all the ways of like the first 30 minutes of this movie sets up everything that will pay off later like they describe all these things of like well why would he know this why would he do this thing it's all there i would hate to think that if there was ever any video pointing out plot holes in home alone that completely ignored all this stuff
in the beginning like look obviously we know that a child couldn't actually build all of the traps that he does in the movie we know this but even this time on this watch when i watched at the very beginning his dad is admonishing him for using the glue gun in the uh in the garage to make christmas ornaments with his new hooks it shows that he is a handy lad already like so it's obviously he goes far beyond what any eight -year -old could do but they at least explain that even yeah and like every time i watch it though i have to i i always forget that they talk about oh you what will you use my
fish hooks for at no point do they get gouged with fish hooks there's the nail through the foot which is like the worst injury in the movie but i was like wait where's the fit where Where are the fishhooks?
When does that happen again?
It doesn't happen. And there's so many opportunities.
I think he realizes some part of the planning, like, no, no, nails are more painful.
Nails are funny. Yeah.
But there are things I just thought, like while taking a shower, I was thinking about the movie and thinking, well, why didn't this happen?
And then I thought, oh, right.
So the scene with the toothbrush, it's just, it's showing Kevin, ostensibly it's showing Kevin's not quite ready to be an adult yet.
The grocery shopping scene is a sequel to that, in which he knows what he's doing.
He can use coupons.
He's having some back and forth with the cashier, but the toothbrushing is still showing he's not ready.
But it's also establishing, yes, the old man is keeping an eye on him, but also he is a shoplifter, which is why he can't say, I got to go to the cops about this.
It's building it into the movie.
Why doesn't Kevin just go to the cops?
Because he thinks the cops will arrest him because he stole a toothbrush.
And also, that store should not worry about a 50 -cent toothbrush.
I'm sorry, no, no, a 39 -cent toothbrush in 1990.
Like, Jimmy, get that kid!
I love that. It's like when they call for Jimmy and he like it's the shot of him hearing it it's like he's superman in a movie he's like what jimmy like he like uh it's it's amazing how they introduce jim break that kid's legs i do every time i see that guy i'm like that's 1950s kid he just looks like a 1950s guy that that one clerk in the in the store and i don't know i do find it weird in this movie that a call from a concerned parent warrants a police officer knocking on the door and going like well whatever but a stolen stolen probably 50 cents at the time toothbrush is almost a manhunt it's
insane you know it shows the cops priorities that's that yeah yeah I mean I don't think John Hughes was kind of conservative I don't think he's making a statement about the police but that's that's the one kind of thing you have to hand wave away it's like the cop is like well hey I knocked on the door you could be dead I don't care and then I guess yeah go ahead there but yeah like even after the all the home alone stuff happens like Kathleen O 'Hara doing that entire trip that's like it is only over two two days which i still it that is still something that's tough for me to wrap my head around
it's like wow all this happens only in like two or three days but like uh yeah like she's not around to like get that feedback i think uh the dad tries to call but there's like miscommunication with phones and stuff and not understanding french but yeah the fact that there's no follow -up there it's like yeah there is an explanation for that and that's because kathleen o 'hara is on the move like in the entire movie so she's not gonna be able to like catch back up she just wants to get get there well i mean in today's surveillance state and with modern phones you can't really none of this would work
now but that's why it'd be hard to remake this movie i also well yeah and i love that the the cops she calls are just like these they're both just lazy jerks eating literally eating donuts during the scene i'm like yeah what uh yeah i'll transfer you and one of the one of the guys is the fake kramer from the uh show within a show within seinfeld he's also the cab driver in planes trains and automobiles oh that's him yeah he's got a really recognizable face yeah i mean all the excuses are there too of like that as a kid i didn't realize why that annoying murphy kid was there i was just like what's
this way is he gonna meet his friend murphy later but it's like no he's out of town the kid's talking about how yeah my family's gonna be out of town too but we're going to orlando but missouri first and then they count everybody and they're in such a rush and they're like fine if they're in a rush fine but if they're they're all in if they're all in the same car somebody's noticing Kevin's not there but they're split cars half the kids are in one car half the kids are in the other so if they're again so harried and rushed nobody is noticing that Kevin's not in the car because they're in the other
car they're like well you must be in the other car Kevin's not in this van and then even when they rush through the airport they have to get on the plane as fast as they can and they tell you like okay kids get in whatever seats open and coach parents to the first class like that's why they're not noticing if they all sat together on the plane they would notice there's no kevin yeah you never see the kids in coach but there's a line like don't you feel bad we're up here in first class like oh the kids are having a blast but yeah uh the only thing i was just thinking like what doesn't make sense
in this movie and there you can probably point out a lot of things but they're working very hard against the 1990 audience and it even flies with a modern audience but i'm thinking like the one thing that doesn't work is after the end of the movie happens the events happen the white bandits are taken out by the old man old man marley uh what we don't see is him saying well you're almost killed let's take you home it's like no i won't tell your parents either yes it's like two men tried to kill this boy you need to take him in or take him to the police like he's like i'll just drop you off and be
a witness for the cops too but they instead just let the kid uh they let marvin they let marvin harry get just arrested uh and then don't tell anybody yeah i mean i also don't know what kevin's end game was because it's like this is the murphys I'm being robbed please help me and then he he gets them to chase him to that house but was his plan to delay them in that house or wait for the cops to arrive in that house while they chase him around he did not booby trap that house what is his end game I ask you I guess yeah just run around in the house until the cops get there I guess maybe he knew
like a hiding spot or something yeah I and that was where I learned that the the basement of the Murphy's was built in a pool like Because it's all underwater in the water scene.
I figured, well, yeah, it's a real basement.
I got fooled by the movie magic.
That's right, because that was a house they previously robbed in that movie.
