Harold And Maude

Harold and Maude is a romantic comedy directed by Hal Ashby about a 20-year old man meeting a 79-year old woman. The movie is by far not your normal romantic comedy about how two people meet and fall in love. How the relationship between the two characters grows is the foundation of the movie. Harold is a young man with a strange emotional obsession with death, and Maude is an old woman who is also curious with death but takes pleasure in living and has lived her life to the brink. The two meet one another in a ritual they both have in common, which is attending funerals of people they do not know for enjoyment. The entanglement of Harold and Maude's distinct characters happens as Maude begins to power over and change Harold’s comprehension

He displays many fake death scenes to upset his mother, who has him go see a psychologist to find out what is wrong with him. The first time Harold sees Maude is at funerals, and she follows him because they have this common passion with each other. As the friendship between the two grows, Maude begins to shows some of the pleasures she has found in her life and shares her principles with him. Harold tells Maude of an event that happened at his academy in the chemistry lab where there was an explosion during an experiment, which made people believe that he was dead. Harold said to Maude that he enjoyed being “dead,” to which Maude replies, “some people do enjoy it, but they are just backing away from life. LIVE!” Maude tells Harold that she enjoys watching things “grow, bloom, fade, die and change into something else” and lets Harold know her longing to come back in her next life as a sunflower. Harold says to Maude that he would be a daisy, because they are all the same. This wanting signifies a desire to be “normal” and recognized by humanity. However, Maude points out that the daisies really are all distinct in their individual ways. Maude also points out that one of the principle issues in society and a cause of plenty of the world’s grief is people who allow themselves, even though they are individuals, to become consumed into the society and try to fit in with