re: Let's Overanalyze "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2"

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IRL: Harry and Marv break into the house via the front door and do a quick sweep to secure the perimiter. While doing so, fully shoed, they crunch on ornaments and knock over a precariously placed fan with feather's nearby. They see a small boy at the top of the staircase and easily assail that steps two at a time and overtake the small boy attempting to throw full paint cans with his puny arms. Harry then questions the boy while Marv checks the rest of the house. Upon Marv's return he finds Harry standing over the body of young Kevin, having accidentially suffocated the child while trying to keep him from screaming so much. After a brief argument, Marv and Harry carry the limp body of the child to the basement where the furnace, that was once a source of so much fear in Kevin's life, finally is used to incinerate his body. His parents return home to find the house ransacked. Kevin's parents never find their son and their marriage crumbles after a having to defend themselves on child neglect charges and many years of guilt. Kevin's father leaves Chicago, while Kevin's mother stays in the house and turns to alcohol and barbituates as a means to cope. She dies of an overdose 7 years later. The house is sold and while a home inspector checks the furnace, the tiny femur bones and skull fragments of Kevin McAllister are found in the bottom of the furnace. At the side of the furnace lies a box of Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese with the words, "For Kevin" written on the front.

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