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In reply to the discussion: I just watched "Home Alone" again. I don't remember it as being so conservative. [View all]redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)24. I took the condition of the house at the end as being part of the "christmas miracle".
Weird how I didn't pick up on that when watching the movie as a kid, which I did repeatedly.
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I just watched "Home Alone" again. I don't remember it as being so conservative. [View all]
redgreenandblue
Dec 2012
OP
You have to consider that he was quite old even during his directing and writing prime
Puzzledtraveller
Dec 2012
#35
His 'era' was the Reagan era. Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, etc.
JaneyVee
Dec 2012
#36
The 80s seemed to be the watershed in unified mind control from the media.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#5
I have come to the point of view that no movie, book or story exists in a vacuum.
redgreenandblue
Dec 2012
#22
I just disagree, I guess. It's necessary for the cops to be incompetent....
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#37
I guess at the end of the day it is unnecessary to filter everything through a political lense.
redgreenandblue
Dec 2012
#38
I never really got that sort of vibe from that movie (or any of his movies for that matter)
Proud Liberal Dem
Dec 2012
#14
I took the condition of the house at the end as being part of the "christmas miracle".
redgreenandblue
Dec 2012
#24