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I want to start talking about the movie because again, as an adult, the thing I noticed the most in

terms of like the mechanics of a screenplay. I'm always thinking about that about what the writers

thinking, what they're using to inform the audience. And they realize up front in 1990, this idea is

crazy. You should not buy this idea. So from the very first minute, they are justifying every choice

that is happening to make these events fall into place. And every time I watch it, I pick up a new one.

I see a new detail. And I'm surprised how much they don't linger on things. Like when Kevin's

ticket is thrown in the trash, you see it for like five frames and they cut away. You just think,

oh, like they threw something away. That's a shot of the mess they threw away. But then if you rewind,

you see the tickets has Kevin on it. And you realize that's one step of the equation. I think the one

thing I noticed this time is like Fuller, the little piss kid is going to sleep with Kevin. And then

after Kevin gets in trouble, that's like the one bit of mercy as mom shows him is like Fuller doesn't

have to sleep with you. But that's the reason why Kevin is left home alone because it's one of the

many things that has to happen in order for Kevin to be there without anyone seeing him or him seeing

no one else. Yeah, without fully there for the waking up. Yeah, it reminds me like how we did when

we did back to the future together for for retro knots. It was just counting all the ways of like

the first 30 minutes of this movie sets up everything that will pay off later. Like they describe

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