Home alone
REVIEW
This is not a movie that I watch all the time but it is a movie I watch all the time one month out of the year. I have a tradition during the month of December (I can not honestly say how long this tradition has been going on but it is at least since 2010) and that is every night I put on either “Home Alone” or “Home Alone 2:Lost in New York.” There is honestly nothing more that gets me into the spirit of Christmas than watching either of these two movies. I could not even be looking at the screen but just hearing the music and the dialogue brings a smile to my face and brings that warmth that only comes during the best time of the year.
“Home Alone” has become a holiday classic. Quotes from this movie still come up in day to day conversation all through out the year. There is something timeless about it and has the same quality as any great Christmas song you get to hear for one month a year. I was the same age as Kevin McCallister when this film originally came out. I thought Kevin was a bad ass, talking back to his mom and shoving Buzz around for eating all his favorite pizza. Now when I watch it I am immediately transported back to that age and am reminded of probably the happiest times of my life. I am brought back to a time when Christmas was actually magical and the anticipation of seeing what Santa had brought kept me sleepless at night. The strength of those feelings is just a memory now but when I watch “Home Alone” I remember.
The first time I saw this film it was cemented in to my favorite movies of all time before I even knew what great movies were. This was the first movie that I truly loved. It is probably the only movie on the list that I could quote every line of dialogue. I quote this movie constantly through out the year...
“You’re what the french call Le Ze Com Pe Tawn (les incompetent)”
or “Two plain cheese pizzas just for me”
or “Keep the change you filthy animal.”
Most people probably hear these quotes and don’t even think twice about them because by this point they are just ingrained in our culture. People my age are now having kids and passing this film on to the next generation and it is still loved. My nieces and nephews love this movie. Even in the digital age they can still relate. This movie has some magic in it. Every year I look forward to the first night of December when I am sitting on m couch and I hear the bells chime in John William score and see in blue letters “Home” and “Alone” glide into the center of the tv screen and am immediately brought back to my nine year old self.
