A little long but worth nine minutes. A few of these points had occurred to me before too.
http://www.cracked.com/video_18889_11-reasons-ferris-buellers-day-off-secretly-terrifying.html (http://www.cracked.com/video_18889_11-reasons-ferris-buellers-day-off-secretly-terrifying.html)
Yeow...Perfectly logical, Captain. Once ya actually think about it...which too few of us do, movie wise.
Have to check this out more often.
I read a critique of it once that asked why kids would go to a fancy restaurant or an art museum?