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Reymundo 2022-03-22 09:02:02

This should be considered a slow-moving movie. The first half is a bit sleepy and the middle part is getting better and better. The whole plot design is very general except for the ending, but the discussion of death and love it expresses really makes me very, very much. I like

the ancient Greek myth that people were originally hermaphrodites and were split into two halves by Zeus, so men and women spent their lives searching for their other half

. The story of Harold and Maude reminds me of this myth, what is

love What maybe love is just a tool that we use repeatedly until we find the other half We use love again and again until we find the right person.

Many people find the wrong person. Many people think they have found the right person. It's not that the two halves of the original, no matter how similar they are, there will be gaps and they cannot be integrated together. There are always such and such shortcomings in

reality ,

so Harold and Maude, who are holding hands and smiling and leaning on each other in the sun, are so beautiful and enviable

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Extended Reading
  • Mazie 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Harold's dancing at the end; beautifully grotesque

  • Marley 2021-12-31 08:02:00

    8.5/10 H&M used a kind of almost weird black humor and a kind of willful amateurism (willful amateurism) to show the yearning for freedom and the hope full of optimism that belonged to the 60s-just like a song in the film The soundtrack sings-"if you want to sing out, sing out; if you want to be free, be free...". The film explores a come out of closet problem in the most fundamental sense: facing everyone’s life and destiny, is it to compromise or fight (conformity or not); and the way the film explores this heavy and serious issue is easy, or even So it's somewhat frivolous-perhaps this style choice can be seen as a sort of overflow after being too heavy. In the middle of watching the movie, I still think that H&M is just the relationship of the acquaintance of the year-end; in the second half, I realize that the film is a movie about the love of the year-end.

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]