Michael Myers from "Halloween" (1978) is Innocent (of a silly thing)

watch on YouTubeI want to talk about one detail from John Carpenter's “Halloween” (1978) which is genuinely hilarious but also doesn’t matter at all. Michael Myers might be innocent of a crime that everyone thinks he committed.In the middle of the movie, Laurie and Annie pull up to the hardware store to chat with Annie’s dad, Sheriff Brackett? He’s shouting over the hardware store’s burglar alarm where someone stole a Halloween mask, rope and a couple of knives.We are meant to think that Michael Myers broke into the store and stole the mask.But did he? Let’s take a look at the timeline.At the beginning of the movie, Michael Myers breaks out of the Sanitarium on the night of October 30, and drives to Haddonfield. The next morning he’s watching Laurie Strode on her way to school and he’s already wearing his creepy mask, let’s say this is 8:30am. He stalks Laurie at school, wearing his mask. He stalks Tommy Doyle who is just leaving school, while wearing the mask, let’s say 3pm.Michael,…