After watching the film, discuss the themes.
What is the movie suggesting about love and relationships, life and death, wealth and class, young and old?
What lessons did you take away from the film?
Also discuss other elements of the film, such as dialogue, cinematography, irony, and the musical soundtrack - all songs written and performed by Cat Stevens.
6 comments:
the movie is showing that people can fall in love with people that are much older than them and its ok.
The movie was funny and it had a very weird plot. I love creative plots and a teenage boy falling in love with a crazy 80 year old woman was a good one. I would watch it again. And trust me I don't normally watch movies twice.
I thought this was a very interesting movie. It shows how no matter what someones age or how far apart their ages may be, love has no limits.
The movie is basically suggesting age is just a number and love can easily overcome it. A lesson I took from the movie is don't take life for granted even if others lives are more important to you than your own. There is a huge amount of irony, especially at the end of the movie since throughout the film Harold is suicidal and goes through suicide scenarios and then when his "girlfriend" dies, it's the last thing he wants and most likely changed his whole perspective on life and death.
This movie was a wonderful movie, there are really good theme's about how precious life is, and it's showing that it shouldn't matter what the age, race, social class, you can find life and love everywhere. Also, it made me think that even though I think I have it bad, others have it much worse and you should never take anything for granted. I learned a lot from the film and it made me think. I thought this was a wonderful movie.
I found “Harold and Maude” to be quite funny, even for the old age of the movie. The main character Harold, starts out an immature young man with a dismal outlook on life. He surrounds himself with death, because that is all he is interested in. Trying to scare his mother with gruesome suicide attempts and attending funerals are a part of Harold’s routinely schedule. His mother, who can not see past her own vision for her son’s life, is constantly annoyed by these childish acts. Therefore, she tries to get Harold to marry.
Harold meets seventy-nine year old Maude at a funeral, as she is regularly attending the same ones that Harold does. Harold becomes attracted to Maude’s holistic outlook on life. She enjoys the concept of death just like Harold, yet she also takes time to appreciate the life in things. Through Maude, Harold begins to appreciate life when before her, all he saw was death. She shows him all of her artwork, inventions, collections and teaches him how to play a few instruments. She teaches him to live life to the fullest. Over the week leading up to her birthday, he falls in love with her, and even tells his mother that he will be marrying Maude. Though after the wedding, Harold finds out that Maude has purposefully overdosed so that she can die at the age of eighty - the perfect age for death. At the end of the film, it shows Harold’s car being driven over a cliff. At this point in the film, I thought that Harold was indeed in the car committing suicide, but in fact he was standing on the cliff’s edge holding his banjo. To me this shows and end and a beginning in his own life. The car that crashed over the cliff was the remade hearse - a symbol of death and up on the cliff was Harold holding his banjo - a symbol of the joy of life, that Maude had impressed upon him.
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