• ProjektSpartan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      68
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      And didn’t one of them show up at the house at the beginning dressed as a police officer? For all Kevin knew the police were in on it!

    • ReallyKinda@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Kevin also enjoys a good western—he might have a healthy skepticism concerning law enforcement.

    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yep. The meme seems to be created by someone who has a vague recollection of the movie, with assumptions of it being a lot simpler. There are a ton if plot holes in the movie, but this is not one of them.

      • ch00f@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        How did he order pizza then, hmmmmm?!

        Edit: I’m learning that it’s possible that the tree knocked out the long distance wires, but left local calls still connected and functional. 911 would still work, but as others pointed out maybe he wasn’t trusting the cops at the moment.

        Though he does call the cops on the wet bandits at the end? Maybe he valued his safety less than he loved being alone.

        Edit2: though his parents are able to leave answering machine messages on all the neighbors’ machines, so there goes that theory

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          That’s not really how phone lines work, unless the central office had its own issues. When you have a POTS (plain old telephone service) line at your house, that two-wire pair runs directly back to the central office where it gets switched to local, long distance, etc. So if you have dial tone, you’re connected.

          • ch00f@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            I think the argument is that the connection between the central office and whatever long-distance hub was severed. This isn’t depicted in the film, as they only show the tree falling nearby the house.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          That’s not really how phone lines work, unless the central office had its own issues. When you have a POTS (plain old telephone service) line at your house, that two-wire pair runs directly back to the central office where it gets switched to local, long distance, etc. So if you have dial tone, you’re connected.