as shifty as they were when they were younger, at the actual age that andreil are at do you think they've got the potential to be friendly strangers? like not overly friendly but the kind of people who understand what being human is
think about it, the experience of living a sheltered life and neil is standing behind someone in the grocery line, watching them unable to scour up money for ramen and water so he pays for it to help things along
andrew watching a little kid peer into his mega expensive car of the year and the kid gets scared of him and moves aside but andrew opens the door moves back, tells the kid he can have a look its fine
do you think they would interfere by force if they ever saw something bad happening in front of them? neil on his runs stopping to help someone cross the road, feeding stray cats in alleyways, yk the people who know what struggle is and don't want it for anyone else?
idk if they're the type to shrug off injustice so easily, i feel like whatever they learnt as children is buried deep inside the caution and fear of strangers and all but maybe what wymack taught them would rise to the surface too cuz if wymack hadn't chosen to help them they wouldn't be alive either
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one of my favorite things is Kevin just being bad at random everyday stuff. can't peel an orange without making a mess. walks into shit all the time. can't use chopsticks. always burns toast. i read a hc years ago about something he can't crack eggs properly and now that's a staple of his personality to ME. can't back into a parking spot. can't cut vegetables without nicking himself. (every time.) it's such an enchanting concept to me.
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kevin mcallister gets criticized for his choices so much but like. home alone does such a good job to lay out why he doesn’t do the obvious. the phone lines aren’t working, so he can’t call the police. and even if he could, he wouldn’t, because the movie clearly establishes that he fears the police due to having gotten caught shoplifting and being chased down by a cop (additionally, we as the audience are shown the police’s incompetence and unwillingness to help). he doesn’t get help from his neighbors because none of them are home, and the one neighbor he knows is busy dealing with his own issues. this movie does nothing but lay out chekov’s gun yet every year i see the worst lest media literate takes imaginable. c’mon guys.
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neil on the run frequents my mind more than i’d like to admit
so for like the entirety of his time on the run he used fuckin 3 4 or 5-in-1 shampoo/conditioner/body wash and like obviously he knew there were other ones he could pick but it’s dumb to lug three separate bottles of shit when there’s one viable option right there. saves space in his bag, less weight, less time in the store. get in, 5-in-1, get out as fast as possible.
so naturally allison finds out about this. she might have inquired. and of course she’s fucking scandalized to learn about the 5-in-1.
can you. imagine. the overwhelm neil probably feels at the store. and allison (who had dragged him there) is explaining that “this one will help moisturize your curls because [she ruffles a hand through his hair and scrunches his damaged ass hair] [cheap ass splat hair dye ass crunchy fried ass hair] …yeah”
and neil is like ???? frantic as fuck in the store like classic clean ??
repair and protect ??? “from what?”
smooth and sleek ?????? “allison these are all the exact same thing—”
and allison is like “omg wait?? what’s your skin care routine?”
and neil is like ??? “my??? my what??????”
allison is like “…..neil.”
neil shrugs and is like, “i just used the 5-in-1. why would a skin care routine [he kinda sneers it bc he had never heard such a thing before and is annoyed at allison’s gaping mouth] be one of my priorities on the run????”
and now allison is pissed because “how is your skin perfect after the horror you’ve put it through???”
ok and then neil is like [in his thoughts] my skin is not perfect. the scars. blegh. the horrors.
and allison sees it all on his face and she grabs his face in one hand (the other one is full of stuff; y’know how women can just carry a bunch of shit in one hand? yea) and makes him look at her, and his cheeks are all squished, lips are pouted, and she says all resolutely, “i meant it. the scars don’t ruin you. it doesn’t matter what happened to your skin. what matters is that you’re alive despite it. that is perfect.”
and when neil can’t make eye contact anymore he kinda just nods and she stares him down for half a second more and huffs. “but seriously, no acne…” continues down the aisle to the face wash and moisturizer. “no acne at all. so fuckin unfair—” and that’s that
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Kevin was genuinely tweaking for like most of the series but thats such an appropriate reaction to having the mafia on your ass
everyone is constantly taking the piss making fun of him which fair, he’s funny when he‘s having a breakdown (or just generally always), but also he was fr the only one with a normal reaction to having no protection from what was coming for him (other than that vertically challenged man with too many knives that I keep hearing about)
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