Home Alone as a critique of the American Family system.

Most people view John Hughes’s subversive masterpiece as a fun, family-friendly Christmas movie. The deeper layers of social commentary and subtle irony are often overlooked by ignorant idiots who just want to see Macaulay Culkin beat the heat out of the antagonists of the movie.

The fact that Kevin’s parents were so dumb that they forgot their child at home shows the decadence that has crept into our society and ruined good old family values. Kevin does not have a good relationship with his older brother and sister. They bully him and mock him. He doesn’t have a male role model to look up to. The ‘alone’ in the title represents the fact that Kevin was isolated, and oppressed in his own house, by his own parents and family, the very people we are supposed to trust. He starts talking to animals as a coping mechanism, an attempt to psychologically get away from the hellhole that was his home. Kevin displays classic symptoms of escapism. Thus when we find that his parents fucking forgot him at home, we’re not surprised. He was a ghost, a loser who no one wanted.

Left alone in his house, Kevin had to face the biggest challenge of his life, a pair of half-cracked bandits trying to ransack his home. Kevin gives a brave fight and successfully defeats the two thieves. Kevin proves that he is a resourceful kid who knows how to use toy cars and steaming irons as self defense.

In the end, his mom understands the importance of family, his dad thanks him for being a good boy, and Kevin gets valuable lessons in arson and physical torture, and all is well.

Until those idiots forget him again in the sequel, and then he has to seek directions from some hotel lobby guy. Goes on to show that the American education system has created a bunch of ignorant fools who never learn from their mistakes.

All in all, this movie has themes which are often unexplored. As a fellow filmmaker, I believe that a deeper introspection is required.

P.S Those parents ought to be arrested for child endangerment. Maybe castrated.