Harold and Maude: Do you believe this is a 1971 movie?

Merritt 2022-03-22 09:02:02

The love of a 20-year-old boy who is addicted to various suicide methods and a 79-year-old lady who loves life. It's still such a cute movie. Harold lived a prosperous life, tired of his mother's dominance and control, and the bond between mother and son was special. Mothers like to make various decisions for their children. After seeing her son "suicide" again and again, she has only regarded it as a child's play. Harold presents a variety of suicide methods in front of his mother and the girls introduced by her mother. Tired of preaching from priests, psychiatrists and uncles, he converted his mother's luxury sports car into a hearse. His hobby is attending various funerals, where he met Maude, 79. This old woman also likes to attend funerals. She wears bright clothes and a yellow umbrella at funerals, nibbles an apple, talks loudly, and sneezes. Transplanting roadside trees back into the forest, dancing in kimonos, collecting all kinds of musical instruments, hoping to be a "simple, tall" sunflower in the next life, no driver's license but likes to steal cars, stalking the police Turn around. After a funeral, she was driving to pick up Harold to leave, she said, it was a good day, and stole another one, "Then I'll take you home in my new car?" Harold said to her, "This is me The car." She smiled and got out of the car and changed to the passenger seat, "Then you should take me back." Harold gave her a ring and proposed to her, she agreed and threw the ring into the sea. "That way I'll know where it is later," she said. She said she was going to die when she was most beautiful and happy, and on the birthday that Harold had prepared for her, she suddenly said that she had just taken the medicine and that she was going to die at midnight. . . Harold drove his "hearse" into the sea, saying goodbye to his past life, as he walked on the hills playing the three strings. How beautiful. .


Even today, it is still a very beautiful and lovely movie. How beautiful. . . Do interesting films always have metaphors waiting for you to find them? In a scene in the movie, Harold is holding Maude's hand by the sea, and I suddenly see a tattoo on it. Is that the symbol tattooed by the Nazi concentration camps? If yes, then Maude must have had a very difficult life, so look at her now, what a lovely woman in comparison. . .

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Harold and Maude quotes

  • Uncle Victor: Let's examine the facts on it. I say this country has been too harsh on its outright condemnation of war. I say you can point to the many material advantages brought about by a crisis and conflict policy. Why, Hell, World War II gave us the ballpoint pen!

  • Harold: I had the most wonderful day today - and - you're very beautiful.

    Maude: Oh, Harold - you make me feel like a schoolgirl.