Ferris Bueller's Timeline fault

This movie presents Ferris Bueller, a clever high school student who feels that he does not want to go to school when he wakes up, so he decides to pretend being sick to trick his parents into letting him stay home from school. His parents are nice, caring and naive people who would never imagine that their son would lie to them, and therefore, they believe his horrendous sick acting. He gets his girlfriend, Sloan Peterson, excused out of school by calling in to fake report that her grandmother had died. He also gets his friend Cameron, who really is sick, to accompany Sloan and himself for a day in the city of Chicago before they all go off to different universities. Two people who have no doubt that Ferris' story is false are his sister and the Ed Rooney, principal of his school. The gang take Cameron's father's car and go to a baseball game, visit the Sears tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, and a parade where Ferris jumps onto a parade float and lip syncs to a song that is playing and no one recognizes him or worries about it. At the end of the day, Ferris and Cameron attempt to roll back the odometer on the car and instead somehow manage to completely total it, sending Cameron into an immense rage after which, he attempts to drown himself in Sloan’s pool, only to be saved by Ferris. Ferris only has a few moments to scurry home before his lie is revealed. He manages to get back in the whim of time while barely avoiding his parents and everyone is oblivious to his massive lie. In all of this, Ferris gets off without consequence and is praised for it, but there is one thing, in engaging in all these acts in one 8-10 hour period, it is not possible to do. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off uses an impossible timeline span in which one gr...

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...ards his house while racing his sister and running into Rooney at the back door adds a little bit of time.

All of these times were accurate and rounded but were in Ferris’s favor. Ferris’s parents would have gotten home a lot sooner than 7:15pm and he would have been busted. If Ferris was not busted there, then maybe at the parade where he jumped up on the float and no one wondered who he was and no one recognized him. His sister would have gotten there a lot sooner than she had while still going to the police station, which does not take three hours judging she gets off school at around 2:30pm, does her own thing before she goes home, and finds Rooney in the house then goes to the station at 4. Ferris most well known quote is, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss It.” in this case, time moved a little too fast.