r/FilmTheorists

I have been thinking about this for a while, heck, even when I trying to spread the word of the series, you see, my goal is to spread the word of TVM series as a whole, but there’s a couple of people I have in mind, such as StanleyMOV Live, Raisorblade and one particular YouTuber we all know about, The Film Theorists, I want to see a video, no a theory of the series especially the future of TVM, like a prediction for Season 5.

Now I can’t comment on YouTube, (but that’s fine, cuz I have one more year away to being 18), so that’s why I need you guys help, if anyone a film theory fan or a casual The Film Theorist.

Who agrees of Film Theory should make a video about the series? Let me know if you want to see it.

Somewhere in my memory....

We all know Kevin McAllister as cheeky suburban white kid who enjoys pretending to shoot the pizza delivery guy and inflicting grievous bodily harm to questionably mentally competent bandits. Plenty has been written about how Kevin has a taste for the sadistic, taking glee in torturing the Wet Bandits with his Saw villain traps, and how the wounds he inflicts would certainly kill most people.

So how do the Wet Bandits survive being set on fire, bashed in the head with metal, and falling incredible distances?

Because they aren't real. They are the product of a lonely, abandoned child's imagination, a kid yearning to matter so much so that he concocted a fantasy in which he had to "defend" his home so he finally felt apart of it.

Kevin is legitimately left home alone by his family. This is his breaking point in the film. After years of emotional neglect, ostracizing, and bullying, his mind can take no more. He begins singing Bing Crosby, lathering himself in after shave, plotting a faux-murder of the pizza delivery boy, and falling into an obsessive tangent about the quality of a tooth brush.

Kevin just wants to be loved. He just wants to matter. And so, he turns the cop at the beginning of the film into an imaginary villain and plays out the events of the movie. Kevin is clever. Kevin is smart. Kevin is capable. All the opposites of how his family view him.

The evidence to this? At the end of the film, the house is pristine. No evidence of all the damage. A child couldn't clean all of that up. And that gold tooth? Who is to say it didn't fall out when the cop originally visited?

Kevin is a broken child losing himself in violent fantasies, and can you blame him? The end of the movie is FUCKING BONKERS. It is the craziest part. His mother and father storm in after not seeing him for days, not being sure if he was alive, and they hug him, ask him like three questions, and then in probably a minute's screen time, decide all is well and fuck off to do other things around the house with the other kids.

They leave him alone again. No prolonged hugging. No prolonged processing. No quality time. Back to business as usual with Kevin left to stare outside at the lonely man he worries he will one day become and project that he had something to do with this fellow reuniting with his family.

It is projection. It is fantasy.

Its is the entire movie.

Somewhere in my memory....

So I had recently just watched End of Oak Street in theaters and I had honestly really enjoyed it! But as the movie was progressing there was a single hint, a single thing that hinted towards the main focus of the film taking place. During the party at the beginning of the movie, Denise heads over to Mrs. Huddleson's house for a Review or advice on her newest Novel/Book. She likes it but as they talk Mrs. Huddleson show's Denise a strange plant in her backyard. It appears to be some weird tree like plant that Mrs. Huddleson thinks was planted there for some sort of prank or joke. When Denise tries to find out what type of plant it is from a library, she asks the librarian if she knows what type of tree it is. And she does! It apparently though is an prehistoric species of plant. As that is discovered weird things happen around the house as well as that Radio speaking of Weird Rips in the fabric of reality. And then the main Premise of the movie happens! I Think that this movie is based off of an Analog Horror. Don't Believe me!? Well let me explain!

Part One: The Plant.

Remember when I said that the weird plant was a Prehistoric Species according to the librarian? Well I'm sure some of you have no idea how that could possibly be similar to an analog horror! Well....there is... the "If you have seen this tree" Analog Horror. The Analog horror goes like this with the second image as shown above. As you can see, it appears to be some extinct tree that if you see it, you have fallen into some sort of rip in the fabric of time. And that is exactly what happens in End of Oak Street, The Plant is similar to the tree, there are rips in the fabric of time or reality according to NASA in the radio, and the whole neighborhood is sent to the prehistoric period! And sure you could argue the tree in the picture and in the movie are not the same, but you can see how they are similar. Not to mention both the Plant and the amount of time they go back in is in/from the Mesozoic/Prehistoric Era.

Part Two: The Characters did the Exact OPPOSITE of the Instructions!

If you take this information and watch the movie again, you can also clearly see that the characters in the movie do the exact OPPOSITE of what the instructions of the analog horror say, they stare at the plant/tree for a while, they panic when they see the lights and Denise slightly becomes worrisome when she realizes what the plant is, and they do not call for help to get away from the dinosaurs while also at first thinking it's just a normal accident. And if you really think about it... Not following these instructions and doing the exact opposite is kind of a whole thing in this movie. The Main cast ALWAYS stares at whatever crazy prehistoric things they stumble into, they panic constantly when they run into Dinosaurs or obstacles, and they do not call for help a lot. Yes a lot of people would do these exact things but I doubt that some would just keep staring at a Dinosaur as it slowly and scarily walks through your house.

Part Three: Dream Scenarios, A Movie based off "This Man"

In 2023, Dream Scenarios was released! This Movie's premise was a man Who kept appearing in people's dreams! Which was based off of "This Man". A Hoax about a strange looking man that appears in most peoples dream. If this movie can exist, then I can totally see a movie based off of an Analog Horror of a tree that sends you back in time.

Anyway thats all i wanted to share, what do you guys think?