idk why people get super pedantic about the movie logic in Home Alone and start and try to pick it apart, because like, its a Christmas movie about a child accidentally being left home alone, the premise isn't exactly asking us to suspend our disbelief that much, and yet nearly every single "gotcha" question I see people bring up about this film is literally answered within the first 15 minutes :/
"seriously how did no one in the family not realize Kevin wasn't there?" everyone was rushing so they wouldn't miss the flight but also every other single contingency measure in place became useless: Kevin wasn't supposed to be alone that night but they moved his cousin to a different bed, Kevin's passport was accidentally thrown away by his dad the night before, the neighbor boy threw off the older cousin's head count so she ended up with the "correct" number of kids before they left the house, they dropped the plane tickets at the terminal, the parents sat in a different class than the kids on the plane
"why didn't Kevin go to the police, the neighbors, etc" his neighbors are also on vacation, the phone lines are down, and if seeing the weird guy stalking his house several days earlier as a police officer wasn't enough to make him suspicious of the cops, he also literally thinks he made his family disappear. like magically, supernaturally, willed them out of existence. and he's eight, so
also he accidentally stole a toothbrush from the store and when you're eight years old that means the police are going to put you in jail forever
