Christ in Home Alone?

Via Twitter/X, from Jeremy Wayne Tate: 

Annual reminder that Home Alone is a Christian movie.

Watch this scene (where Kevin enters the church) very carefully, where Kevin is drawn to the beauty and warmth of the church. As he walks inside to "O Holy Night", he hears the words "Fall on your knees, Oh hear the angel voices!" A sanctuary candle passes across the foreground, indicating that Christ is present inside the church. Kevin then has an encounter with a Christ figure: Old Man Marley. Kevin makes a confession to him, then shakes his hand and we see a bandage on Marley's hand. It's never explained why his hand is wounded, but earlier in the movie we saw that his hand was actually pierced ALL THE WAY THROUGH — like the nails driven through Christ's hands on the cross. At the end of the movie, Kevin cannot save himself from the burglars, and so Marley appears again to rescue him. Home Alone is a Christian movie.

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Interesting thoughts that I've never considered, but it seems like either Chris Columbus (director) or John Hughes (writer) wanted to place a sort of gospel easter egg into the story. Being Christ-obsessed I get the impulse to want to find Christ in everything. But being a little OCD, I also want to be careful not to stretch too far. This construal of Home Alone seems un-forced because it's so robust. 

A little later in the twitter/X thread, a user named BeachComber replied: 

Interesting. Kevin has the only truly Christmas experience in the film, as for the rest of his extended family it's all consumerism and travel and the 'holiday season'. So Kevin's loneliness and abandonment brings him to a faith experience, which is the message of Christmas. 

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My hope is that if the holiday season is a little lonely for you, you'll have a sense of Christ's drawing near to you to draw you near to him. That's what Christmas is about: Christ comes to us to bring us to him (1 Pet. 3:18). And you're included.