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Peter Paradise @byPeterParadise
Home Alone is a Christian movie about Kevin finding faith.
He starts the movie in a non-praying house, making an evil wish to Santa (an idol) for his family to disappear.
While at first he enjoys his time without his family, he has a yearning in his heart to be reunited with their love.
He consults a Santa impersonator asking for help, but comes to realize that this is a false god who can’t help him.
Disheartened he enters a peaceful and beautiful church where he encounters old man Marley, a patriarch who has inspired fear in him in the past. Marley approaches Kevin w/pierced hands, asks Kevin if he has been good, and tells him a version of the prodigal son story.
Kevin returns from the church, changed. He makes dinner and prays to God at home before his final confrontation between good and evil. The home is defending us now a Christian household.
Kevin’s victory is not just over the robbers but his sinful nature, and by conquering that he is reunited with his family and gets to experience the true meaning of Christmas.
Sherman McCoy @wasphyxiation
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Nov 12
The discourse about the Home Alone house has me thinking about the movie. Easily one of the most sincere and least irony-poisoned movies ever made. This is why it's become an enduring classic
