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When watching Harold and Maude I found that the theme of the movie was polarity.
Harold who is a young man was obsessed with death. He meets Maude A 79 year old women who is obsessed with life, and experiencing all aspects of it, to the point of knowing what its like to steal a police car. Harolds mother seems to be the complete middle road in the fact that she is preoccupied with getting her son hooked up, with a women in the hopes that it will cure him of his obsession with death. Harolds mother goes as far as buying him a brand new Jaguar sports car which to me kind of symbolizes a kind of macho object as men like to use hot sports cars to pick women.

There is an irony in that Harold doesn’t begin to live, until he meets Maude who believes that no one should live beyond the age of eighty. In the movie Harold and Maude had sex and Harold wanted to marry Maude, but there was disgust from the families’ minister/priest.

When Maude OD’s on pills on her 80th birthday Harold learns the true meaning of life. Which is symbolized by him driving his Jaguar Hearst off of a cliff, and the closing scene of him walking away happily, to the Cats Steven closing song, means to me that Harold is now into living life to the fullest like Maude instead of dying, or being around death.