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Adrain 2022-03-22 09:02:02

I finally calmed down and finished watching [Harold and Maud]. I have been looking for this movie since my third year of high school. The emotions that have accumulated over the years have made my expectations unbearable, so I was a little nervous at first: I remembered watching the same movie two years ago. The type of [Venus], I think the story is a good story, but unfortunately the energetic old man is not charming enough, and the story seems a little lacking.

Luckily, this fine 1970s black comedy didn't let me down.

Maud's charm makes this absurd year-end love suddenly appear full of fun, romance and vitality. Harold, a suicidal autistic teenager, meets Maud, who turns 80 in a few days. Their common hobby is attending a stranger's funeral. Maud is the opposite of Harold's boredom, and she relishes life's surprises. She always randomly drove into a car on the side of the road, speeding fast, and even tricked the police into chasing her until it broke down. She is infinitely creative and the result of her inventions is a great experience that seeks to retain smell and touch. She would also treat Harold for afternoon tea, like a traditional old lady, but the music flowing from her keyboard was lively country music. She was devastated when she saw the dying tree by the roadside, and urged Harold to join her in transplanting the tree into the forest.
What moved me most about her was that on her birthday, she calmly told Harold, who had proposed to her, that she had taken her medicine and was about to face death. Understandably, as a person who likes dynamic life, how could she endure the dullness of the body and the poor breathing, how could she endure the dullness of thinking and the poor keyboard, how could she endure the boiling of emotions and the poor desire? Instead, it's better to come to a loud stop when you can make a choice.
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  • Soledad 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    I don't know if this is love or friendship, or if I found a soulmate. The suicide scene is good.

  • Morton 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    The old lady is really charming, I really don't like the music in this film

Harold and Maude quotes

  • Harold: What were you fighting for?

    Maude: Oh, big issues. Liberty. Rights. Justice. Kings died, kingdoms fell. I don't regret the kingdoms - what sense in borders and nations and patriotism? But I miss the kings.

  • Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?

    Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe.

    Maude: Why do you say that?

    Harold: Because they're all alike.

    Maude: Oooh, but they're *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,

    [she points to a daisy]

    Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.

    [she gestures to a field of daisies]

    Maude: [cut to a shot of a field of gravestones in a military cemetery]