Home movies seek to represent a happy and balanced life. Of all the many things that happen in human life, most are not "suitable" not "fit" for filming. The missing images, what is considered taboo, while marriages are many a home movie will never feature divorce - or abuse - or aggression. Happy moments abound.
Home movies are the medium of joy, and you feel that with the subjects. The movie camera comes out for the vacation, for the new baby...as if the ephemerality of those moments commanded them to record. Or is it that the sight of the camera triggers a certain glee - a universal smile and say cheese!
