COTD2-Harold and Maude Movie

In the beginning of the movie, Harold was playing dead and his mother didn't even care. She completely ignored him. It seemed like he is obsessed death. Harold like to play with death and make up different scenes in front of him mother. It looks like deep down inside he wants to die but he still is alive. Harold is very nonchalant about death and i don't think have any feelings toward it. It doesn't take it seriously. The mother kind of gets upset by the fact that he always does things to make him seem dead. Every time that he plays the different roles he never get a reaction from his mother that he wants. I think that overall he is ignored by his family so he does things to get attention.

Maude and Harold are similar in the way that they are obsessed with death. She is always attending funerals and burials of other people she doesn't know. Later on in the scenes, he rather be alone than with a girlfriend. His mother tries to put him on a date and he just scared her away. Nobody really understands him as a person besides his mother. Maude and Harold both have unique personalities that allow them to get along. I think that Maude believes that everybody dies and you should live your life to have fun. She always stealing people's cars and doing what she wants to live her life to fullest who cares about rules and the regulations.

I think that Maude teaches Harold to let go and enjoy himself because he's so stuck in dying and doing different roles to kill himself, instead of the moment you should live it. Harold mother i think believes that Harold should act age appropriate. The mother doesn't really take death seriously as Harold and Maude do. She doesn't believe in the deeper meaning of it. She is opposite of Harold. She is very materialistic as well. Maude says "the earth is my body, my head is in the stars", i think that she means that we rule the world that you own your body and you wish what ever happens to your body or do what you want. She is very full of life and doesn't think of the bad possibilities just the good ones.

In the movie he said "I haven't lived. I've died a few times". He was saying that he enjoyed being died. He would rather be dead than alive and that is when Maude comes in to brighten up his life because of the negativity he always puts on himself. I think that he doesn't receive enough love or attention from her. There is more to life than dying that is what Maude is trying to teach Harold.