And if you want to be free, be free
'Cause there's a million things to be
You know that there are - Cat Stevens
Harold:
Does not take death serious... He would fake his death all the time. He is very sarcastic and gets pleasure of faking it, it’s kind of like he playing with his mother emotions. He takes casual visits to funerals. I think Harold does this to get attention, because funerals and death are ways people come together to think about the good times they had with this person. Harold is his mother only child and they are wealthy, this could be a way for Harold to show his mother, his way of communicating. Harold meets Maude at a funeral and they become good friends. He questions her why does she do wrong things to people... she says people can’t get attach to things to it’s the right thing to do. Ever since they met, he wants to live life the fullest. I soon discovered that his death obsession happened when he was in boarding school, in science class, a fire happened everybody in the school thought he died. He came home but his mother did not know he was home; the police came and told her that Harold he was dead. His mother reacted in such sad way, which trigged him to enjoyed acting dead. When he told Maude the story she said “People enjoy being dead, but they are alive”. After a while his mother became immune to his behavior, even though she does not enjoy it. His mother wants to help him, so she thinks taking him to the army will help, When his mother sent him to meet the Sargent, he faked acting mad towards killing someone, Maude showed up .. and She fell into a “hole”. Now he does not have to go to the army. When Maude died, he felt very sad for couple of days, but he coped with her death by making his car jump over the cliff, and playing Cat Stevens
* Every one as the right to make an ass out of them, can't let the world judge you all the time
*He meets sunshine, and she is actors, he plays a death joke on her.. But she acts along, so it does not work. She was not fooled by his actions.
He propose to Maude and she tossed it in the river, she told him.. She accepted and she is happy, so there is no point of having a ring. Their marriage is in her house in a room full of the same flowers, but I do remember her saying that she does not want to be like everybody else, but she gets married? He told her, he loved her, she said go lover some more.
Maude:
An older woman about (79) also is obsessive over deaths/life, she makes visits to church and funerals, and they meet at a church. She is a wild women, does what she wants breaks the rules, steals people cars. She says people don’t need to attach to things but, in her house she holds things she likes. "She does not want to be a daisy because they are all the same" They spent the whole day together and did crazy things.
* I like to watch things grow, change and bloom. And turn into something else.
*Take life as it is. Don’t hold on to things, when change comes it would be even better.
*IF you want to be free, if you to be me, and if you want to be you be you. There is a million things to do.
Harold mom:
Seems to traditional mother, having people over for dinner most of the time, she dresses proper her attitude cares of what people think. Harold mother dealt with Harold behavior for a while, she does not react in a way that she cares but does not wish he does that, so she send him to a psychology. She wants her son to be "normal", she sets up dates for him, while he plays death jokes on them, and he smiles. His mother drafts him to the army.
I thought it was weird how her reactions to Harold behavior were normal, but then again she wanted to help him. She did not tell him to stop, she ignored his actions. I think that’s why he continued with his death behavior. I also think the reason why Maude became friends with Harold was because she needed help coping with her own feelings, and Harold fell in love with her, even though in her mind she was not looking for that. When she turned 80, she took a dose of a drug, she wanted to die, even though she explained to Harold life goes on.. So then why she wanted to end it?. She said she was happy?, but by her coping with her own feelings, she also helped Harold with his own.
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