extra credit #1

in the movie Harold and Mude, Harold experiences several death experience in his lifetime. in the beginning of the movie, you see Harold trying to look like he has hung himself. the lady in the same room, gives him a weird look and asks him if he thinks that is funny. it seems as if the lady doesn't really care about what he is doing. she walks away as if she saw nothing. then again, he pretends that he got seriously cut and stabbed. the lady again starts yelling say that she has had enough.

you see harold talking to a therapist multiple times during the movie about him always acting out as if he is dying. once he stated that he did it 15times. the therapist seemed shocked. there were also a couple funerals that go on in the movie. and at all of them Harold looks as if he is dumbfounded. he looks like he doesnt want to be there and that he is in his own world. he always looks around and has a worried yet shocked face on when he look towards the casket. to me this makes me think that funerals and death to Harold do not matter to him. he goes on with life not caring about who dies and that dying is a big joke.

but then later on in the movie, he starts to hang out with Maude. she tries to give him more of a spin on life. they go out and do a bunch of different stuff to "live life" the more time he spends with her, the more he started to care and love for her more.

at the end of the movie, Maude dies on her birthday. Harold had no idea that she was even sick. he was so heartbroken when he found out. he stayed in the hospital until her got news on her. when he finally did, the doctors told him that she had died. the changed Harold perspective on death forever. since he finally had someone who understood him and that he really was attached, having them die actually ment something to him. at the end, he drove to the top of a couple of valley's and started playing the bango. he was playing the song that Maude played on the piano and was walking.