I really should watch this film. For as long as I can remember, that is, for as long as I have taken the cinema seriously vie wanted to see this. I’ve put it aside do too long. I think it may be on netflix instant so I might watch it after work tonight
It has lots of satiric value. You will laugh and find insight in its observations.
The moral message is nice, but what makes this film more interesting is these two characters’ relationships with death. Though Harold seems obsessed with mortality, there are clear signs throughout the film that Maude has a much deeper relationship with death and tragedy that she has sublimated into her personality.
An interesting film for this reason, and also because of its unreserved quirkiness and sentimentality.
You have an interesting perspective. Maude no longer fears death as she has embraced the life she has lived. I think Harold really fears death and doesn’t have a clue how to embrace life.
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Harold and Maude is a dark comedy that is a cult classic. Harold is young but hates life. Maude is old but loves to live life on the edge. This movie is very funny and very clever.This movie has the great music of Cat Stevens and Ruth Gordon in her finest performance.This film belongs in a time capsule because its message is universal.Live your life to the fullest even if others find you eccentric.