0:00 – Intro
1:37 – Family
6:57 – Kevin’s Transformation
12:12 – The Dan Harmon Story Circle
17:47 – Symbolism
25:45 – The Wet Bandits’ Character Breakdown
31:28 – Old Man Marley’s Character Breakdown
35:29 – The Mother’s Character Breakdown
41:11 – Outro

Intro

what else could we be forgetting Kevin so home alone you watchit every year not every year uh I haven’t watched it for a couple of years um but it wasmy favorite childhood Christmas film but it was home alone too lost in New Yorkwasn’t it I mean I prefer I prefer the second one yeah even though the stories are essentially exactly the same just ina different version M um but we’re now on the33rd anniversary this year yeah that’s crazy it’s is absolutely crazy yeah cuzI was born in the year that the movie was released like 1990 and you were born just before that yeah I was born about10 months before it got released it’s a cultural icon yeah everyone everyone haswatched it whenever I talk to children or parents or that kind of thing they they know the movie yeah even now andthey they love the movie why why do you think it’s remained so popular um well the thing that got meinto the film when I was probably about seven I think I watched it yeah um wasjust the slaps comedy element of it which obviously appeals to the seven-year-old 10-year-old whatever butthen there are quite a lot of deeper Nuance like points and uh symbols going on within the film whichwhich I guess the whole good versus evil thing and it just makes it very christmy I think the first question is

Family

how does Home Alone connect with the theme of family the film sort of starts off withKevin getting really annoyed at family and hating them yeah because there’s somany of them he’s not really getting the attention he’s getting told off for things he didn’t do Kevin get upstairs right now why Kevin you’re such adisease shut up Kevin up stairs say good night Kevin good night Kevin that’s howit starts but as you go through the film it’s sort of he comes to his own sort ofrealization as to how family is really important to him it starts off with himobviously wishing his family would disappear and magically making them disappear or so he thinks and then heenjoys that initial Freedom U and then as the story s develops more and more he he sort ofrealizes how much he needs those Family Ties I love that aspect to the film soKevin has this sort of magical like the the sort of imagination as a child thathe he’s made his family disappear yeah I wonder if he actually believes that yeah no like like as in I I really think hehe does his children children have that so of they can take that magical leap I made my familydisappear and so for the whole movie he’s not really although at the beginning he’sobviously annoyed and then he starts to miss him nearer near the end of the movie yeah when he realized he needshelp but really he’s like sort of protected and shielded by his own imaginationwhich is which I think is kind of a beautiful thing but then you can see like even his older siblings start toget a bit worried about it like Megan starts to starts to worry about him Buzz not so much but me I think he did hejust doesn’t doesn’t show it and I like that aspect too so like it show like theolder brother kind of going he’ll be fine like sort of a putting a positive spin on it and then the parentsobviously like freaking out what what’s happening the dad sort of calling peopleup and the mother just sort of despairing that like the L that’s all the L things that all those regretsbasically yeah um so I think it really hits on the differences and thedifferent age groups and it reflects characters within your own life um andthat’s one of the reasons why it resonates cuz there’s there’s a character really for everyone in thereyeah so if you’re if you’re with your family at Christmas there is there isthat Uncle there is that that younger sibling um the a kid with the glassesthat pees in the bed after drinking loads of Pepsi oh Faller there’s like character for every everyfamily member also I think was it some time to reflect on the title is a goodthing so like the significance of the title when I when I hear that title so home alone right what’s your immediateimpression of that horror film yeah well either ahorror film or like it could be either it could it’s it’s kind of up to your own interpretation yeah I I don’timmediately think comedy I I think I think that’s a verysomber a very somber title for for basically a comedy romp essentially yeahum and I love that about it too because it reflects something uh Beyond just theslapstick and the IT reflects something deeper in in that so many people around the world maybe people that you know andthat kind of thing they they have a sense of being alone even if they’resurrounded by people around them and that’s also reflected in Kevin cuz he feels sort of isolated on the family inin some way he feels like they’re not really my family in a sense um I’m I’mI’m like this but they’re like this um so I think that’s reflected in thetitle but it’s also sort of the deeper theme of you know people being alone during Christmas especially theelderly um so this is where yeah um Marley yeah old man Marley yeahthat’s where old man Marley comes in but he also there’s like this church scene Kevin’s in the church and you can seeall around him in the different pews you see old people so the elderly sittingseparately yes and they they they’re all isolated but but together at the same time so is in they’re in the same placebut they’re all isolated at the time maybe you’re not really sort of thinking it of it in a tragic way and you’recertainly not doing that with your a child maybe as you get older and you look into the symbolism within the filmand that kind of thing you see um the isolation is more poignant comes acrossmore yeah I have to say whenever I’ve wor sh as a kid or even up until now really I didn’t reallypick up on that yeah as a kid you can appreciate and that’s the other thing as well that makes it s such a Timelessmovie is that there’s some meaningful element for everyone obviously at Christmas

Kevin’s Transformation

Christmas is a Time where the family come together um yeah and Kevin is sortof alone during this time obviously like they do come back eventuallyspoiler yeah yeah he’s not left alone forever not until the next not until thenext film um Kevin himself goes through uh an apotheosis ortransformation yeah um in in terms of his his views on family like I said hewas sort of isolated or feeling more isolated and alone at the beginning and yet by the end of themovie you can see that he’s sort of buying into this ideal of family completely how do you see that develophow do you think that development sort of took place in his mind initially he was happy with his new Freedom a lovelycheese pizza just for me we could have the pizza that he actually ordered andjump on the bed jump on the bed have ice cream and watch films and whatever else what you you mean guys I’m eting drunkand watching rubbish you better come out and stop me but as things start to take a turn he does realize how much he needsthem and when that does happen I think he finds family in the community yeah asa replacement for his family that aren’t there neighbors the church old man Marley um yeah so I think he replaceshis family with that community so it’s all aboutcommunism replacement of the family unit there’s something in it foreveryone basically yeah MH um I I see it as likehe he sort of starts to also take on roles that he’s more paternal yeahexactly so he he actually Comforts old man Marley a little bit and he um hesort of takes a more mature and you can see in the shopping scene like that that’s probably one of thebest a brilliant from from like a symbolic in terms of the character growth like it’s absolutely brilliant Bbecause he goes to the the cashier pulls out coupons like an old man yeah yeah exactly yeah hold on a go a coupon forthat it was in the paper this morning or or like a mother yeah in a sense like dtaking on that role and then he he alsoum I love the bit where well the interactions with the cas Cashers comes across as so mature and then thecashiers obviously sort of looking on at that with sort of Wonder a little bitlike she’s a little bit of confusion like why is this little kid doing it but I think it’s also respect I don’t know Ithink it’s I think it’s also like trying to protect him yeah shelike where you know she asked where where are your parents and are you here alone and that’s sort thing but I thinkshe’s also like there’s an element of respect that sort of comes through in how how the how she sort of Acts where’syour mom my mom’s in the car where’s your father he’s at work what about your brothers and your sisters I’m an onlychild where do you live uh I can tell you that why not cuz you’re a strangerI’m like yes you you see that sort of growth and Independence and obviously like he spends his time protecting the house so he takes on that fatherlyprotective role as it were yeah the etal you know would do you see that as him in away sort of protecting his family yeah the protecting the home bowo himself because it’s one of the most like youthink about it the most terrifying it’s potent it’s potentiallythe most terrifying film you could turn that into a real horror horror story oh yeah yeah like like imagine the S offear you just changed the music that’s all you need to do how you make any film different justchanging music and you have slightly more competent villains basically yeahum they obviously I like the fact that they actually do catch up to him in the end but we’ll get to that but I love thebit where he’s walking home and you can see like he’s got all the shopping oh the shopping BS yeah yeah but then theybreak and I think for that that represents like that’s got some symbolicrepresentation too that he hasn’t fully figured it out yeah he hasn’t he’s not readyhe hasn’t fully um matur to the point where he can fully take care of himself and that kind of thing or or it’s justthe ’90s thing that happened with paper bags that were just funny or just reading too much into it could be eitherwell I I think it can be both can and that’s one of the weird thingswith sort of analyzing anything you can you can go down but I like it was just aTrope that happened quite a lot in like ’90s films and TV where the bags just inin my blog on this like um I I do actually pick up on that and think it’sit’s it’s symbolic through but you knowinterpretations things obviously we undertook some research

The Dan Harmon Story Circle

before a little bit yeah a little bit of research in into this I’ve been I’ve been researching for 30years and um you sort of focused on the idea of ofcharacter development of of of Kevin yeah yeah yeah well I’ve had this idea like I saidI want to make a separate video on using this uh character development thing andanalyzing like five different characters and I thought how how well would it work with with this film yeah so there’s afew different versions you can have the character Arc um you can have the can’twhat they’re all called the one that I um gone by is the Dan Haron Story Circletell us a bit more about that so Dan Haron is the writer writer creator of umCommunity one of my favorite shows of all time and Rick andMorty and he has this eight step Story Circle that essentially says would be umit would work with any story so if I go through these eight points we can maybe M see how it works so the first one isthey are in a zone of comfort so the characters in a zone of comfort so I suppose with Kevin that that willcertainly be the case so yeah he doesn’t realize it but he’s in the zone of comfort family he’s got food drinkwhatever else safety blah blah okay number two they’re on his own a comfort but they want something yeah he he seekI think deep down he secretly desires a greater connection with his family but he doesn’t doesn’t fullyunderstand that yeah but what he actually thinks that he wants is the freedom but then freedom in space fromthe family so number three they enter an unfamiliar situation yeah so his homealone to totally being yeah isolated uh number four they adapt to thatsituation yeah right um so we’re now like halfway through the CLE he does he does that really well yeah like it’spretty impressive so we’re halfway through a circle uh number five they get what they want so they get the freedom they get the ice cream pizza whatever itwas number six they pay a heavy price do you think that’s true so whatwhat’s what’s the heavy price that he pays well the burglar like trying to steal from him and like kidnap him andbut then it’s not for his freedom although it is from the situation beingalone I suppose that is sort of true yeah but it kind of like I supposebecause it’s a family movie it’s a little less hard edged yeah well I mean the heavy price that he’s paid is herealizes how much he needs his family and whatever else um and that’s the heavy price um okay number seven they returnedto their familiar situation after the heavy price mhm number eight havingchanged to become a better person character whatever and then they’re back at the beginning yeah that probably istrue for most characters in literature yeah you can apply this to pretty much every every story I don’t know aboutyeah certainly not every story yeah but there are some there are some wherepeople really don’t end up in a better place but um do say it doesn’t say better place it says havingchanged oh yeah or or died yeah somechanged but then what happens at that point is they they’re back it’s a circle rightso they’re back at the beginning again and then they’ll you know New Journey new price blah blah blah blah blah theymight be better they might be worse but they’ve changed so many things are cyclical in nature oh yeahhistory well some people actually believe that things like for instance history is not linear well is notcircular they actually think it’s it’s linear so it’s going towards something an end point but I disagree um no Ithink it’s secular there ancient civilizations that got wiped out when we started again from the beginning you know so I would say I say everything isthere’s a famous paper by Frank Francis fukiyama who wrote a long time ago andit was called the end of history and and he was like I did it when I was doingstudying economics and he had the argument that um we’d rest on liberaldemocracies and that was the sort of end of History like there would be no further development that was theultimate um result as it were but if you actually look at most of the non-westernworld it’s really not like that so you cannot take for granted the fact thatwe’ll end up in a liberal democracy it it simply does not work like that it itcould end up it could easily go back to Nazism or something like that like youcan’t take for granted where we end up sometimes think of it as like a pendulum you swing too far one way yeahnature corrects itself yes there there’s a there’s a counter movementyeah but anyway that that was a deepdetail there’s a number of sort of symbolic facets to the movie the first

Symbolism

one that you we as we were talking about it earlier um was the the the color inin Home Alone yeah so I watched um behind the something I can’t rememberwhat it’s called there a Netflix series that takes you behind people’s favorite films and home Al alone was one of themuh the set was actually made in a school sports Hall inside the house was insidea school sports Hall that’s just crazy yeah it’s mad like you can’t tell no well they ran they they were going tocancel the whole project and then I can’t remember wi and maybe it was like M who’s mv’s character one one of themlike pulled out and they didn’t have enough funding whatever else and then basically the film the film got back on track um and they showed all this inthis behind the scenes um I watch that they showed that in the behind the scenes thing one ofthe things that they said is what they weren’t allowed to have any like blue or whatever in the house everything had tobe red and green and what was the sort of what was their thought behind that just make it as Christmas aspossible simple simple yeah it’s very straightforward but yeah you think like there’ be well is blue not like a littlebit of a I think it’s coming back is kind of strange cuz I think maybe that was true at the time and now I’mnoticing more blue and blue and Silvers it’s the other way around I think I think you’re just thinking of how howour tree in this talking to kids and and and they’re like oh we we’re doing ablue and so I it’s a secular thing again because I we everything used to be red and green uhtintle and then it’s switched over to silver and bluestuff and I think about 5 years ago it switched to red and green again Fashionsyeah yeah someday it would just be pink and maroon or something like that yeahpurple and yellow or something yeah but you had you had some ideas about uhother symbolic things in there I think the most interesting one is there’s amovie that Kevin’s watching called angels with filthy souls I think it’s called and that was completely made forthe movie yeah it’s a completely madeup film probably but based Loosely based onwas that because they had like budgetary con straints or something like that maybe well I’m sure they probably couldn’t show like was it based on isthey like Scarface or something yeah something like that yeah so they probably couldn’t use that film so they made their own version of it obviouslylike Kevin’s watching it because he can watch whatever he wants yeah and I assume because because the timing of thethat scene where he pretends that he’s shooting or whatever you you’d have to make ityourself to make that scene comedically actually work where where is a complete psychopath to thepizza basically 1 210 yeah Kevin is kind of kind of Psychopathic throughout the whole wellnot all the film but like sometimes at points like some of the things that he just did Bandits they did this thingwhere they were like coun in the number of times that you could die or they could die and he was like about eighttimes across boat Like Home Alone one and two it’s crazy yeah like you know inthe the uh you know the way they fall over that cartoon sort of way yeah is literally called The Home Alonefall later sucker she home alone me like they they specifically did that slip andthen landing on your back uh yeah and you get so badly injured from the stun doubles did thatit’s all in that uh behind the scenes episode they talk about all this stuff yeah they kind of they kind ofterrifying villains because they like the wet Bandits because they’re they’reindestructible they just keep coming well I think it’s more that they sort oftreat them as cartoon characters rather than real people yeah I do love that aspect to it just this is back when likeLooney Tunes and that sort of stuff was big as well yeah there must be crossovercross over between the things that kids like to that age but with reference to angels withfil Souls I thought it was quite interesting because obviously when you see something in amovie well I don’t know if it’s obvious but some people when they see something in the movie they go okay what’s thesignificance of this moving forward does this connect to anything else in the movie and I sort of think it’s it’s kindof strange that it’s in there so what do you who do you relate it to so who isthe angel with the filthy Soul or is it that it’s trying to Flip Flip that ideaso we’ve talked briefly about say old man Marley right mm and he’s obviouslythis at the start is’s more of a Sinister character kind of the creepy neighborsee the garbage can Full Assault that’s where he keeps hisvictims but then he turns out to be the angel as it were that saves Kevin so yougot deos X MAA like him coming to the rescueum sort of inserted in there and yet like our original impression is thathe’s he’s po potentially little little strange and all the scenes with him likehe’s presented as a bit strange until you sort of get to know the character yeah then you’ve got thecriminals so you’ve got the wet Bandits and I think that might be the closestrelationship because originally I can’t remember which one’s the cop so it comes in asthe cop which is super strange in the cop Jo Joe pesy yeah so he he comes inand and he’s the cop so the golden tooth thing wasn’t it he’s the angel and then heturns cross he becomes the filthy Soul as it as it were in our minds um you gotKevin who’s just like I don’t know does he become more does his he becomes lessnaive throughout the the movie I suppose because he he becomes less ofa what’s the word becomes he becomes less of a brat yes uh and then youhave the rest of the family as well so like buzz for example yeah was probablynot a very nice person but when he comes back around again he’s yeah there’s all these like crossovers going on so so Ithink it’s interesting but I mean they might have just put put it in withno no thought as to maybe the symbolism behind it but I just think it’s kind ofan interesting relationship there between that random sort of that random movieJust inserted in there and sort of the events that transpire and the different characters like cuz you you are thinkwell if I watch it I think I’m thinking about that I don’t I don’t think many people are no I don’t I know that Ino but as you cuz I obviously do more literature and that kind of thing so I’malways kind of thinking well what’s the significance of of this and how does that link to something else um but in init just just puzzles me so so that particular relationship the bandits the wet Bandits

The Wet Bandits’ Character Breakdown

what do you think they stand for in themovie um well if we link it to everything we’re spoken about they don’t haveany Community or family that we know of they are completely isolated that’s trueyeah and show could happen if you don’t have all of that stuff Point yeah andthen they’re take they’re trying to take possessions or money whatever elseno um none of the work basically none of the moral compass go they’re causingchaos as well cuz like I think there’s this bit where I can’t remember which one the turns on the Taps likesecond no you tri can’t remember second one is where they steal from the charity shop the kid toy like just causingchaos what are you laughing at you did it again didn’t you you leftthe water running didn’t you they obviously represent this sort of evil yeah idea ofevil um and I like how it’s pointed out to be kind of stupidlike the the idea of being like just causing problems for people like itseems it never pays for them yeah well a lot of the time they do it just not notfor the monetary gain just because they want to for the sake of doing it they they just represent this kind of chaosthat um and and obviously like potentially like our ownfears so the the darkness that exists within within everyone everyone is justbrought out fully with in those two characters the MAF character reminds meof I can’t I don’t know the name of the character but in Pinocchio oh there’s two yeah thetall fox trying to lead them away from the fox and the cat originally in cuz ifyou actually read the original Pinocchio the Carlo Ki um not not so much theDisney one they sort of like make it a bit more friendly but still pretty dark yeah it is it is it is that’s why it’ssuch a brilliant movie it’s got those dark and Light Elements um but yeah nothey really really do maybe they’re I don’t know how inspired they are from there but yeah um leading someone down adark path but there’s less of that in in this it’s more like they just wantto their sense of fun is just causing pain for other people essentially yeahum sort of well I think is but I think the um what’s what’s the other there MVand what’s his name um Harry Harry Harry Harry and M yeah so Harry wants themonetary stuff that’s what he show him with a gold tooth the beginning his kids are still going to school here and Iguess he missed the whole family checking what all the lights and everything like to what time they go off when they can go steal stuff and M’sjust there like flooding the place for no reason like turning the Taps on and whatever else yeah so I think and therelike there’s like scenes in the ice skating RMA M just like taking people scarves for no reason and so I thinkthere’s between the two of them it shows both sides one that’s just for the chaosand one one that’s for the money would you like a scarf we don’t want goods we need cash we need it nowyou’ve got you’ve got a criminal um interesting criminal like there’s thisthing about like criminal Partnerships and how like two people if you you’ve got one who’s very organized andsystematic and then one who’s sort of chaotic andunhinged potentially you get a very dangerous combination because you um youknow they they escalate each other in a sense yeah mhm um and also they they’reharder to catch because they’ve got the more s pragmatic one he’s a bit morelogical um and plans things out more with I never really uh never really thought about that till just nowactually oh yeah I think that there’s definitely an element where they’ sort of played on that psychology of of howcriminals are so they’ve done a little bit of thinking about it and Researchinto sort of criminal Dynamics cuz you do tend to have that that as a dynamicyou have a more structured person and then you’ve got someone who’s justlike I I guess the the chaotic one or maybe the one who like for instance youyou you sometimes have um Prison Breaks right and there’s usually some guywho’s tough like the tough guy um and he just loves fighting and getting out butyou always have someone who’s a deep planner and has the sort of tacticalelement or has the sort of intelligence to be able to pull off a breakout so Ithink they’re quite interesting in that sense like and maybe not many people think about the role of the bandits andalso I think they present something for Kevin obviously something to overcome um he repres he represents uhdarkness that a child needs to at some point overcome and yeah and it alsoshows how growth can come out through overcoming challengesyeah Darkness yeah exactly a character who I think has massive

Old Man Marley’s Character Breakdown

significance is old man Marley yeah he doesn’t appear that many times in thefilm but he s of pops up and every single time he pops up he sort ofreveals more of his character yeah exactly yeah um you’ve got the sort of don’t judgeable but by its cover sort ofthing going on with him yeah like we were saying earlier that’s s of angels and with filthy souls thing and we’retrying to work out where he is on that Spectrum um but Ithink overall we and we’ve obviously got the fact that he he becomes the eventualsavior it’s like yeah he’s a hidden Angel that’s yeah that danger does catchup with Kevin and yet he come he swoops in and sort of shows you know his hissort of maturity um and and his strength in that moment as as the hero so theunlikely hero he’s got his own sort of character Journey as well yeah again youcould apply that eight-step thing eight step Circle yeah to his character cuz atfirst you thought he was isolated you thought he was Alone um and you thought he was evilSinister and as you as he pops up more and more you you get to see more of his character and Kevin sort of realizesit’s not evil um but then we spoke about the whole family thing with Kevin beingreunited with his family after you know a few days old man Marley’s family whohe hadn’t spoken to for however many years over something stupid they got reunited because of Kevin yeah so Kevinis his Angel just as much as yeah he’s Kevin’s Angel and you’ve got that lovelyscene at the end where he’s reunited and and like Kevin’s waving out through the window yeah which is probably like isone of the Kevin Kevin reuniting with his family is sort of emotional but thenI think actually that sort of wave out to Marley and the sort of genuine smile that you get from Kevin and that kind ofthing is is one of the most touching moments in in the film do you think thatit’s also you know how we said about the wet band it’s like oh this is what you could be if you don’t have all of thisstuff uh family connection blah blah blah I do not thinkthat Kevin could have been old man Marley if he continued down the yeah I Ithink there’s definitely a sense in which oh my moolly is a potential futurefuture Kevin it’s like come and that’s why you’ve got those sort of timelines and connections and um he Marley wellold man Marley I think is obviously inspired by the Christmascarols Marley character not Bob Marley yeah he’sum in but it’s very very different is in the relationship isn’t as asstraightforward because obviously um uh the ghost ofMarley is uh he’s dead so he’s got no he’s gotno impetus to or no possibility ofchanging um and his role is to actually change the character ofScrooge but in this you get the development you get the development ofboth Kevin and old man Marley who you think anychange can’t may maybe can’t make that sort of De sort of can’t change muchbecause he’s he’s old but it shows that there’s hope for for anyone so anyonecan be redeemed so I I quite like the reference cuz they take it and then theysort of play around with it and flip it on its head quiteclever one person we haven’t spoken about is the mother in this

The Mother’s Character Breakdown

film um what are your thoughts on how how she’s portrayed it’s kind of a similar journey is just the other wayyeah so I think at the start you could certainlycriticize elements loing him in the attic I know not giving him food maybe maybe it obviously it was adiff it was kind of a different time in in in a sense like so so so that was amore of a common punishment so isolation but it’s one of the sort of cruess whenwhen someone’s already feeling isolated a child a young child already feels isolated like feels everything’s againsthim and then isn’t is sort of unjustly I think I think there’s a sense of likeInjustice in the whole thing at the start mhm but you can sort of understand Kevin ‘s reaction to the whole thing umlike why he’s angry at his family why he wants to let them so make them disappear and at some point he’s like I think hismother says uh get Santa to bring you a new family everyone in this family hatesme then maybe you should ask Santa for a new family which I think is quite a trivial is like a trivializingand unfair way to deal with the situationyeah um like she thinks that he’s done all this stuff that’s the difference as well she thinks that he is the CT of allof this chaos that’s going on yeah and obviously like they it shows again the importance of misunderstandings andcommunication cuz cuz like most most arguments most um misunderstandings mostissues do have usually an element of miscommunication or saying saying thingsthat you don’t want to that you probably shouldn’t say well probably don’t mean yeah but I thought it was interestinghow so we spoke about how the wet Bandits would foro family friends blahblah blah for just monary material game or justfun chaotic fun but then as the film goes on there’s a point where Kevin sayshe prays for his family to come back he like I don’t want I don’t care about my presence I don’t care about any of thisstuff want the family back and on the other end with the mom’s trying to get uh a flight or whatever backto um the house to find him she they’re very well off Family you can see by thehouse she says things like she tries she said like I’ll I’ll give you my earrings they worth like how much to to takesomebody’s seat on the plane yeah and um like she’s willing to give up all of hermoney everything that she’s yeah got in a monetary sense to get backyeah he’s willing to do the same thing has offered us two first class tickets if we go Friday plus a ring a watch apocket translator $500 and the earrings you love the earrings if it cost meeverything I own if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself I am going to get home to my sonand it’s like reflected in the way they that the family as a wholeare really not enjoying their holiday at all because of the worry yeah mhm eventhe K spz and all of the yeah and again that that s of links back to the fact that like remember I said Kevin seems tobe more or less okay with it um at the start sort of because he he’s got thatsort magical imagination and then the the adults don’t have that they can’t theyhave to go they have to like completely rationalize everything and just go they can’t go oh no um oh he just disappearedlike or something like that they they don’t have that uh blanket as it were to protect themfrom the true reality of the situation so the reality hits them very hard andthen as the sort of movie draws to a close the family reunite they come backtogether and you’ve got forgiveness you’ve just got like Happunal yeah happiness to see each other yeah um unconditional love I thinkespecially as as Christmas is sometimes a time where t can run High um but is is also importantto reflect that on the fact that it’s a special time where families can cometogether and actually get closer you know it’s one of the few times in theyear where everyone’s together we we did this when we were talking about schoolholidays we did yeah it shows and it sort of provides a a resonating messagethat sort of the they’re the people that you’re sort of thrown together with frombirth as it were you can’t you can’t choose your family so much as long as aslong as they shows you know a modicum of unconditional love and that kind ofthing then you should make the effort even buzz and um Kevin sort of make up and they’resort of the antagonist so you’ve got that element of there is a point at the endwhere where things just return back to normal yeah where uh Buzz realized thathe’s trashed his room yeah the cyclical nature of things MH and thus we have home alonetoo before we close off I we put a poll out last was it last year I think on

Outro

Instagram of whether people Preferred Home Alone one or Home Alone to um be interesting to see what whatyou guys think it was fairly unanimous from our from our poll so yeah Home Alone one or Home Alone[Laughter] two keep it change your filthy[Music] animal the education Lounge[Music] podcast