You know a good cultural analysis could be done of Home Alone vis a vis societal anxieties about latchkey kids in the 80s-90s,...
You know a good cultural analysis could be done of Home Alone vis a vis societal anxieties about latchkey kids in the 80s-90s, and how big a hit that movie was perhaps due to how reassuring the message was to guilty parents that an 8-year old abandoned for upwards of a week will not only survive and not burn down the house but do grocery shopping, feed himself well, and defend the house from danger when presented with the suburban parent nightmare scenario of scary criminals breaking into the home when you aren’t there to defend the children.
That particular fantasy wasn’t for the kids - kids will just fast forward to the end with the burglars getting beat up, a comparatively small section of the movie compared to “Kevin goes grocery shopping” and “Kevin goes to church” and “mom heroically breaks all laws and land speed records to get home to her son who misses her”
it took me a minute to realize this wasn’t a @kontextmaschine post