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 was white and from a wealthy family, he’d be fine.
His neighborhood was an upper-middle class family who were fucking loaded. Cops kiss up to the wealthy.
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Kevin went full ACAB.
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.
Kevin also didn’t want his parents to get in trouble so he didn’t call the cops
Wasn’t he under the impression his parents (and all of his family, really) had ceased to exist?
“I made my family disappear.” 😈
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.
Prepping for the Good Son movie role
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If we’re gonna take shitposts seriously, then I’m also gonna inform you that I recently watched the movies, and a lot of the injuries depicted would be at least ER-worthy, with possible permanent crippling damage, and more than a few would easily kill a man. Especially in the second film.
I was going to say, he beans them in the head with bricks from a 3 or 4-story building in the second one, there’s no way they get out of that without out, at best, shattered skulls and massive brain trauma. The paint cans and giant tool chest down the stairs in the first one could easily kill a man too.
Are you referencing the sound of a tool chest falling down the stairs or the bricks to the face?
There are also several YT videos with trauma surgeons and ER nurses rating the injuries sustained by Marv and Harry. Even the innocuous ones would leave them permanently scarred, most would cripple them for life, and a good couple of them would be instantly lethal.
Ah! Good old videos on ‘how realistic these films are’. I know at least three decent series of such vids, but forgot about them lately — need to get into them again, they provide nice mealtime entertainment.
One of them got electrocuted to the point you could see his skeleton. Kevin was facing off against a couple of immortals.
Oooh, now there’s a fun idea for a sequel/spin off.
Every white suburban man’s wet dream.
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.
America, Police, Safe. Hmmm.
Nah, it’s because he knows one fundamental truth: ACAB. Especially the sleezy one with the gold tooth.
All Clams Are Bivalves
HA1 was in Chicago. CPD is half as corrupt as NYPD
HA2 was in New York. NYPD is half as corrupt as LAPD.
LAPD is corruption incarnate.
Kevin had no other choice. besides he was staying in a hotel with a human trafficker and pedophile, things were already dangerous enough as it was.
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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.
and that’s what we should all learn from him
Didn’t even think of that. You’re right.
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.
Which is, again, another thing explained in the movie within the first 5 minutes.
This is Kevin now. Feel.old yet?
The Good Son theory of Home Alone.
He couldn’t have phoned anyone! The phone line was out!
