Harold and Maude’s Freedom
The main theme in the film, Harold and Maude is freedom. They both desire freedom in their lives. The movie is trying to show people to enjoy what you have in life, to live everyday as best you can and to be happy with yourself. When Harold meets Maude at a funeral, they start hanging out and they realize that they have something in common, not that they both like funerals but that they need to have fun together.
The quote, “…Maude is free with other’s property, usually cars, is her way of telling people that they do not have a hold on things, that it is best to love it while it is there for it may not be tomorrow,” is very true. She normally steals people’s cars because she doesn’t care, and she wants other people to learn a lesson. She also wants to be happy. She also doesn’t let anything get in her way. If she wants to do something, she most likely will. On her 80th birthday she took some pills that would kill her. She thought 80 was old enough. She had lived a good life and wasn’t going to let even Harold stand in her way of doing what she wanted to do.
Harold is a very different person as well. “…so obsessed with death that he cannot focus on life. His obsession with death is illustrated in his repeated suicide acts.” This shows that he knows what he is doing, the suicides were very believable and mature. He knew what he was doing and when he did these, he was really just crying out for attention from his horrid mother. She really had no idea what was wrong with him and still tried to make him a different person by trying to find him a girl or put him the military. The movie was very enjoyable and goes to show that life is good, be happy and enjoy what you have now because you may not have it tomorrow.
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I agree with how you said the idea of the movie was freedom. IT is true how it is shown by the way Maude lives. She didnt care about possesions; she showed this by the way she would steal cars. She was all about living freely.
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