Home Alone's Secret Meaning: Adulting is Hard
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- What's the secret message of Home Alone? The Macaulay Culkin movie was meant for kids and perfectly captured their fears and desires -- but it also has a deep meaning that speaks to young adults, in our era of perpetual kidulthood. Are we not all, in a sense, "home alone"? If you like this video, subscribe to our channel or support us on Patreon: / thetake
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Please do "The Bad Boy" trope, as well as some more "Avatar" themed videos! ❤️
you should do a comparison video on Home Alone/Last Man on Earth/Passengers. (Poor Tom Hanks must be the only one who got stuck alone but didn't get to have fun.)
Please do something on the sound of music? Your takes on movies are amazing!!
And here I thought it meant child abuse is bad
I'd be extremely happy if you make a Daria video emphasizing the social dynamic of that "sick, sad world"
Even if we grow up and isolate ourselves from everyone we can't stand, there's still one person we have to put up with more; ourselves.
Yeah, but at 8 years old few of us have enough experiences to have crippling anxiety, trauma or even come to hate ourselves. Without any of that it's just lonely being by yourself.
@@PlushieBastet trust me when I say as a public educator, plenty of children suffer from crippling anxiety, trauma and parentfied childhood experiences. Not as goofy as Kevin, but the takes analysis is spot on 👌
Did she just perceptively analyse an ad for google assistant
So glad that something is finally looking deeper beyond 'Kevin is a psychopath' surface-level analysis and making a video about the actual message of the film.
Honestly, I kinda feel like Kevin was justified in putting the robbers through so much. I mean they robbed the neighborhood, were going to rob his house and were trying to kill him once they realized he was a smart kid. I'd kinda want their pain, too, so it's a little annoying seeing everyone call Kevin a psychopath when in reality he's just a scared and brave kid defending himself in extreme but effective ways.
Casey Wilde They should be calling Kevin a scapegoat. He’s constantly ignored and the family forgets him at home because he’s invisible to them and go on a “family” vacation. The poor kid has to defend himself against robbers/possible murders and he’s to blame? Being labeled a psychopath?! That’s scapegoating!!!
Me: “hmmm... home alone in March?” **sees it’s The Take. Bangs gavel** “I’ll allow it.”
Indeed, as long as it's The Take, they can be forgiven for analysing a Christmas movie in March! 😉🎄🎁
Lol my thought process exactly
Had almost the same thought process, just not as comically timed!
That's kinda how I felt, too, though I was far less lenient on AMC showing Home Alone this past weekend. I also took off some points for using the godawful cringefest of a word that is "adulting", but again The Take is good enough to overcome such offenses
Once again, "The Take" completely blows my mind on a childhood classic that I thought I knew. 🤯 As a child, we just want to be older so that we can have independence, and be taken seriously.
However, once we ARE adults, all we want is for someone to tell us what to do, to come and sort out all our dilemmas. It's telling that most of us dreaded being told to go to bed early, and now, it's something that we dream about! 😅
Well it’s awesome that no one is telling you to go to bed, do the dishes etc as an adult. But if you have a bossy roommate or something. As an adult you see many people either still don’t take you seriously or take you too seriously
As time has gone on I've noticed just how awful Kevin's family is, especially uncle Frank. In Home Alone 2, Buzz becomes even worse. He pretends to give a sincere apology to their parents after publicly bullying Kevin, then gloats to him for deceiving them and getting away without a punishment.
Beat that, you little trout sniffer.
I always wanted that Kevin remind to their family they abandoned him just a year before, like a reminder they can be quite some as*holes and make them stop in their arrogance.
Yeah, as a little kid bullied all the way in the 90s, I feel more for Kevin still these days and I’m 31
YES
I noticed that too. Buzz is what you call a master manipulator and Kevin is someone who is not going to take his bullshit.
I think what made Home Alone significant is that it brought to life every child's fantasy. Being all alone in the house, do whatever you want without any consequences from adult supervision.
Amen. I´m 24, and I still remember how much I wanted to be like Kevin.
@@mateoairaudo5535
I wanted to be friends with Kevin.
I am 20 years old and just moved totaly on my own a few months ago and i feel like him! I sometimes explain to the teller at the bank im a brand new grown up and am not sure what im doing when i ask stupid questons like how debt works.
Sometimes i feel like i need adult supervision
And then i realise "oh shit, I'm the adult"
I'm sure some other new adults can see what I'm getting at
You also learn of terrible people like Jay through the internet and grow your emotional maturity through that.
@jay Kevin could've cut the Wet Bandits with all of the edge of your dumb comment
Yeah! We are a bunch of idiots who try to turns things around
Nah youre not alone
Fake it til you make it.
That’s what everyone is doing.
me as a kid watching this movie: LIVING ALONE? WHAT A DREAM!
me as an adult watching this movie: LIVING ALONE? WHAT A NIGHTMARE!
Haha, my sentiments EXACTLY! The older you grow, the more you want others around you to prevent loneliness. 💖
@@trinaq you mean to distract you from existential dread
@Black Ninja The older I get the more lonely I feel. I want people arround but I always feel like I am a burden to them
@@paloma4444 lol no im 18 and i already despise people i actively try to scare people off so they dont come near me. The older i get the more i get sick of ppls bs
hopia hon I’m scared of living alone
I don’t know how to cook
I’ll starve to death
Kevin's parents were a bit irresponsible, that's why he got lost twice.
You spelled overwhelm wrong.
They have like 8 kids plus that annoying uncle
They shouldn't let the uncle live there if they have 8 children already. Also they shouldn't have had more children than they can reasonably handle. No excuse!!
@@manatarmsbrown736 The uncle is probably there just for the holidays and I guess they should start executing their children or something
@@manatarmsbrown736 they went to Paris for the holidays they can more than afford a family of eight, the nany must have been with her own family. Stop planning other people's families please, the supreme court ruled that it's nobody's business.
Every time I hear a kid crying, I say “I know what you mean kid.”
I just smile and think "one day you'll learn how to do that on the inside"
i thought of the film “Big” as i was watching this. it’s about a kid literally living in an adult’s body and succeeds at “adulting” despite actually just being a 13 year old.
it would be interesting to see a video about that!
Likewise, that's always been one of my favourite films as well! 😃I'd love them talk about how Josh views the adult world through the eyes of a preteen child, and how his childhood enthusiasm rubs off on the adults around him. 🧒👧🎹
@@trinaq 13 is teen. Not preteen. It's right there in the word.
Sorry for being nit-picky. I agree with your comment.
That film Big, I know which film your talking about. In the adult world in 1980s were, how can I put it? Industrial and workplace offices, tax machine style 80s but felt kinda lost in them ownselfs trying to get by. The 80s were a time of growth but information like the internet today was not understood and yet perhaps felt polarised by all the contradicting noises of adulthood back then which tv (or romance books) seemed the answer of explaining back then, situations which come off as relatable but satire comedy and dodging lagitable today but then not considered questions. For us, as adults and how we look at the world is just feels like we are touching the surface of many polerising noises, being more conscious of it.
I think that's the same message but a more positive take. In the 80's and 90s adulthood had a lot of frivolity. "Adult" furniture from a reputable store. Separate paper products for eating cleaning and blowing of one's nose. New cars from a dealership wi thg h tons of paperwork and markup. But thg he younger genera thg in would streamline all of that. And maybe replace them with new stuff. That's why you see all these puff pieces saying "millenials are destroying x" in the 60s and 70s it was baby boomers are destroying x with their counterculture. Then generation x is destroying x with their computers.
I'll add 13 Going on 30 as well, this one was inspired by Big, the only difference (aside from boy/girl protagonist) is that in Big he's an adult in the same year and in 13... she wakes up 17 years later.
“So google’s adult Kevin is still a fitting poster boy for a generation of millennials who were raised on this movie. And who now find themselves lonely, emotionally immature and too dependent on media as a window into the world. What if we, like Kevin, are stuck in kidulthood? Hedonistic and afraid”
Why did you just attack my entire generation like that 😭
They're not wrong though
this is scary true
Okay boomers
She really came for our throats
Melora Carabas where are the boomers? When will people stop saying this?
The take is now on my Top 5 most intelligent channels on youtube.
same lmao
other 4 please
Mine too
One of the reasons why home alone is beloved movie it’s a friendly reminder to parents that they are not the only ones who strewed up rising their kids.
The unanswered question of Home Alone: what kind of jobe does Kevin's father's had that allowed him to have that huge house and raise comfortably five kids (at least finantially, not so much in other things) and fly his huge family to Paris, even if assuming that Kevin's mother also works/has an income?
@@kerrytakashi12 A what?
Lawyer, stockbroker, financial investor...idk, something boring.
The uncle flew them all to Paris, where he was living, as a thank you for watching their kids in the States. Also, it was a different time.
@@AshleyKress it was the uncle living in Paris?! I just saw it and I was sure as fuck it was Kevin's dad who flew them all to Europe and then to florida and NY the year after
I think the mom was a fashion or costume designer cuz she had all those mannequins in the basement and the sewing machine in her room. The dad probably worked in something related with investments
Rewatching the movie last Christmas as an adult, I really just wanted to see a montage of Kevin cleaning up the house. How in the hell was that crime scene so spotless on Christmas morning?
just moved out from home a couple days ago, watched this
why am i crying
Damn, that analysis at the end describing "kidulthood", being alone and isolated, using media to stay connected with the world and to keep one company... Oof, that hit close to home, especially since I've become estranged with my family. Way to put your finger right in the wound, The Take 😫
"Kidulthood" - 🤣😆😁that is great
I love how this channel comes out unexpected but brilliant videos we never knew we needed
Damn, this channel is actually really nice. I share stuff with my friends about my fav movies here. Its great
I've never saw the film in the way you guys analyzed it. This is such a fascinating take on the film. This is a really relatable subject, where we as kids or even teens, want to become adults as soon as possible but when we do get to adulthood, it's what we thought it would be.
I bet not even most of these movies put this much thought into the meaning as much as The Take does
arithelamb but the way the director filmed scenes and chose specific camerawork kind of contradicts your comment. Not saying that what this video is explaining is 100% true either lol
"Is not art more about what the people take of it that about the people put in?" Todd.
And that's why the autor is death as Roland Barthes wrote once...
what does it say about you when you’re in your 20’s but still relate to this child😂😭
@Black Ninja Baby Boomers is the generation term used for people born post WW2, Kevin's parents are boomers, my parents are boomers. They raised Millennials, you know the kids who grew up in the 80s and 90s respectively.
There's a lot of talk about how irresponsible Millennials are or how immature they are but to be frank the Boomers didn't really give us much go work with. Home Alone kind of weirdly touches on the issues with the Nanny TV aspect as mentioned as well as some low key neglect, I mean it's an exaggeration but it's still pretty on point
I my self am a Millennial and i agree with Seanna L. Like it or not Statistically speaking the stereotype of millennials its true, I agree with boomers on that point. However is not fair to solely put the blame on millennials. This is a result of horrible parenting, telling your kids that they are special (even though they are not), giving them participation trophies, and sparing the rod. This is extremely harmful, it gives kids a sense of entitlement that turns into Narcissism.
Hey I kind of feel home alone and like I am not as loved as when I was a child, but then I am figuring my parents love is pretty hollow. Just felt stirred up
I know, we're all like Kevin, trying to adopt an adult persona, but instead feeling lost, forlorn, and out of our depths 😞🥰
Jessica Victoria Carrillo sorry didn’t mean to press that 😅
John Hughes brilliantly understood family dynamics. In most of his movies, the kids don't get along, yet still love each other. Very endearing.
Yeah he did
Tom & Jerry’s secret meaning : finding your true path
Ah, the Take...
Maybe the only channel that can make me cry by analyzing "Home alone"...
I wish there was a course to teach filmmakers on when to quit. The first two Home Alone were great, the rest were not needed. So many great tv shows and movies have been ruined by bloody unnecessary sequels. LEARN WHEN TO LEAVE A GOOD THING ALONE FFS 😒🙅🏿♀️
Am I the only one who liked home alone 3 as well?
@@raghavgidwani2755 home alone 3 was great, the 4th one is sh*t
Raghav Gidwani I’m right there with you. Unpopular opinion but it’s my favorite
Fahrizal Nugraha theres a home alone 4? Was that the one with a completely different kid that wasn’t Kevin?
@@leilanidru7506 The 3rd one was with a completely different kid that wasn't Kevin. The 4th one was with Kevin played by a completely different kid that wasn't Macaulay Culkin facing off Marv played by a completely different dude that wasn't Daniel Stern.
This hit me more than Marv hitting Harry with a baseball bat
I just realized that this was basically me starting college
The other day I stopped myself from buying a special Darth Vader 30 dollar Sheaffer pen because I realised that I really didn't need it...I am doing adulting correctly and IT SUCKS!!!!
That’s just not true. Life is not truly complete without a Darth Vader pen. Go back and buy it 💵🖋👍
Quite happy to be the home alone generation. Made me realize I should not repeat the idiocy and ignorant-but-confident attitude of adults.
I’m 36 and I still buy stuff that my parents refused to buy me. I bought a playmobile house from the 90 on eBay for 400€, a collection of action dolls and so on. We don’t ever really grow up and that is okay. As long as we always try to evolve.
You ladies outdid yourself with this video. Spot on analysis.
The beginning with Kevin and his family used to make me really upset because I felt sorry for him...it felt like his whole family hated him. Now I think back on it, it reminds me of me when I was a child. When I was mad or upset every positive thing my family did would go flying out the window and I saw them as these mean people who didn’t understand me and hated me.
One of my uncles has 6 kids but only raised one of them, and when this girl went to college living alone at 17 far away from her mom she started having panic attacks and when she wanted to come back he felt no empathy and said "I was already her father she doesn't need us anymore" to his wife (her mother).
I was shocked, *you're never too old to stop needing your parents* . My mom still asks for advice to my 83 y/o grandpa.
Omg what a jerk no matter how old a child is that's still your child
Great to see a video on this channel dedicated to Home Alone! I love it so much! I’ve always loved the scene in the church because Marley somewhat serves as a cautionary tale for Kevin.
Yeah, that's what Marleys in Christmas movies do ^_^
I always find myself in constant awe of you ladies.
One can read all sorta of meaning into everything. Ryan George put it well, anyone can make anything sound smart with this video essay frame :)
I'm having trouble being an adult everything told to me growing up was a lie.
I am so ecstatic you have made a video essay on one of my most favorite holiday movies of all time. On top of that, in a few months time, the original "Home Alone" will celebrate its 30th anniversary!
I feel like I'm punished for being an adult.
Always loved that movie, never saw that much depth in it
What a Fantastic analysis of this Christmas classic
Oh my God.The Take,you don't know this video affect me so much now.U change my perspective about adulthood.I complained too much about this before.Finally I learn something and that's so good to know how to do adulthood right from our most favourite Christmas movie.Thank you and I'm so thankful for this video
❤️
"budding sadaism" - i'm gonna use that
Y’all should do a video on Jeff and Annie from Community because their relationship was VERY complex.
Yes! Or a video on the show in general!
Seconded, I adore that show, and wouldn't mind seeing them analyse Abed, and discuss in depth why he retreats into fictional media as a coping mechanism. ❤️
annie's pretty young we try not to sexualize her
Yes please!!
i never even watched the movie but this video attacked me on a personal level even though I am just a teenager, in the terrifying midst of adulthood and childhood
I never knew that situation of my life is similar to movie home alone except the fact I'm a girl and I'm 21 😂
Actually the meaning is that Kevin let all of his anger out on two criminals who were being a pair of Grinches by nearly killing them.
This was unexpectedly emotional. Well done, The Take!
This made me cry 😭 it was so good. Keep up the amazing work!
it's simple I see the Take i click, and I know it's gonna be good
I did find parts of the movie funny but it had me beyond pissed.
I remember asking my mom how the heck Did they forget him.
I was so mad about it,he was like the only blonde child in the bunch and he had to protect himself from 2 grown men.
I remember being so mad that I shouted "If it was me I would have called cps." Mind you I was 7 or 8 years old and the oldest of 5 kids.
Damn... that is exactly how I feel now as a grown up :(
Wow! Now I know why I loved this movie growing up!!! 😂💗 SO INSIGHTFUL! Thanks for making this! Love it! ❤️
I always love the insight provided by The Take. I am still waiting for the day Phantom of the Opera gets a look at
♥️ Love this take on such a classic and important film for so many of us. I see the correlations between Home Alone and the exhilirating anxieties of adulting.
This film always upset me when I was younger, because Kevin's parents were worried about him and so happy to see him when they returned.
This channel needs to hit 1 million subs!
You guys are so great. Just had to shout that out after watching this vid. ❤
This is very much a Christmas movie, so like most moralizing around Christmas it pits Consumerism and holliday rush against whatever you think the reason for the season actually should be --probably something deep about family and human connection and not leaving people isolated and inner richness. It's kind of the vision of a Christmas Carol (Notice the adult friend character is "Marley" like Jacob Marley, the first instructive spirit of that to Christmas proof Scrooge). Further in, it's the manger scene of a child protected from persecution and united with family and friends. Like our Christmas mythology, however, the movie has a lot of ambivalence about such warm and fuzzy christmas ideals. It takes a lot of delight in every kid's fantasy of determining their own fate in every self-indulgent way possible and proving themselves capable of outsmarting adults to live their trivial-but-fun life endlessly. We'd rather remember Kevin like this, even if he is grossly immature with his smarts and independence and indeed BECAUSE he is and we want to have that fantasy too. I feel like Ferris Bueller's day off is in the same ballpark. The closest female equivalent I can find with the same "If only I had the power and the money" questions for girls is something like "The Princess Diaries". It follows a similar arc. Wouldn't it be fun to be independent and rich and powerful and treated like an adult? But darned if it would fix all the issues you usually have with human relationships. That considered, what should adulthood look like.
When are the next avatar videos coming out
I A yesss, I’ve turned on notifications because I thought the other elements come next 😭
From a bit of a male chauvinist pig, you ladies do really great work. Thanks.
12:38 okay but was there any need to attack me like that
I remember wondering why the police didn't care enough to check INSIDE the house and gave up so easily! I also thought how the director framed the shots the movie was kind of like a horror movie (and not just a family Christmas movie). A lot of kids movies in the 80s and 90s were pretty dark.
Depends on how you grew up. I am much happier figuring things out on my own, with the help of therapists and a few of the right people. Choosing the life I want to live, even with all the challenges of adulthood. Childhood was not fun, childhood was a prison. Glad it's over, bring on the adulthood any day!
Can you do an analysis on "ugly Betty"
YOU ARE SO TALENTED!! AND ENTERTAINING!! AND I LOVE IT!!💗🐱💅
You women have your Hallmark movies...for me...this is my Christmas movie... especially the 2nd one... there's something magical about traveling alone.
It's been 30 YEARS!? So I'm old. Cool.
Yikes, this one really hitted home
"The alone in home alone doesn't have to be a constant" *trembles in quarantine*
Well, that was depressing as hell.
I always wondered why Kevin doesn't ask or call someone for help. Hey meets Marley literally less than an hour before the invaders come in. He is fully aware. Instead, he waits until the adults come in and save the day for him.
okay but how do y'alls videos ALWAYS hit different
Sad thing is many adults are just so immature and don't ever understand! Liking kids shows and movies doesn't mean you're not an adult. It's behavior but people seem to have a different view
true its one thing if you like childish things but acting out and treating others like crap is not very mature also being entitled
I never knew the name of the old man with the shovel. Now I wonder if his name--Marley--is a nod to Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol?
I’ve never been this early and I’ll never be again. Great video!
Maybe in a parallel universe he grew up not a mess and ended up being a great actor. He had such a amazing talent as a kid.
It's hard if you call it "adulting" because there are those who COULD have it together but dont have the life skills or impulse control to do so, and there are those who have an actual raw deal. The former are the ones who call it "adulting" as if it's an act.
Considering how Kevin knew how to use fabric softener and kept that house almost spotless at the end, I’d say he was better at adulting than most people in real life!
We all wanted to be like Kevin when we were kids. He was like the ultimate kid fantasy.
Uncle Frank deserves a spot in one of Jigsaw traps. (Assuming Kevin does grow up to become the killer)
I love these videos!!
You guys are simply amazing!
OMG! There have been talks of a remake of this movie... Might be interesting to see an adult have to deal with similar problems just to see just how good the parallels to adulthood are.
You know... it's March. Close-ish to Easter.
And there's an animated movie that set around the Easter season.
Do you have anything to analyse about Rise of the Guardians?
Well, except maybe the religious undertones of the movie.
Or maybe have a thought on Abominable?
Also, great video. Loved the idea of it portraying adulthood and the expectations versus the reality... It's quite noticeable within the movie, but not too in your face, which is probably what makes the movie a classic enough for it to be played on TV every. single. Christmas season.
Excellent video 👏👏👏👏👏
I saw this movie more of as a positive message for kids:
Yeah, most people are assholes and dysfunctional idiots. That doesn't mean you're doomed. You can still survive. You can use creativity to deal with problems. There are some people who aren't dysfunctional idiots. I felt like that was a positive message as a kid.
Make a video about The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It has been decades since I have seen this movie. It is probably past time that I see it again.
You should have waited just one more day to post this fantastic video, for today is Catherine O'Hara's birthday 😂❤️
Celebrate with some fruit wine!
"Being a grown-up sort of sucks". Couldn't have said it better. As a child, you think that adults are like some different species or something, people who have everything sorted out, who know how life works. When you get to be an adult, you notice that you're basically the same child you always were, only that now people expect you to behave as if you weren't. And you buy into the illusion that everyone else is an adult who has everything sorted out, etc. You fail to notice that they're also just faking it.
Never thought hOme alone will be so sad
I fucking hate adulting. I wish I could just regress to when I was 12, only worrying about video games and going to the library to read my favorite books and sometimes joining my brothers in their "fight club" and definitely joining them on adventures in our nearby creek, hunting for crawfish to collect. Those were the days. Before fucking debt and commutes and micromanaging bosses and fucking panic attacks and dreaded emails and meetings and the endless trips to get groceries. God...
What an analysis...bravo.