The teenager who was obsessed with death fell in love with an old man 60 years older than him

Aliza 2021-12-31 08:02:00

The great thing about the movie is that it can show the imagination and imagination through visual sensory experience.

For example, grotesque plots, unusual character cleanliness, magical species superpowers, and even some unintelligible imagery... As long as the director dares to imagine, he can create jaw-dropping works.

The theme of the story of "Harlow and Morder" is enough to make my eyes shine. It discusses the death of people, but it does not have an overly dull philosophical exposition. It is based on the two year-long acquaintances of Harlow and Mude. Start with grotesque habit to interpret a kind of cognition of death.

Harlow and Mude are both eccentric people, and their age difference is almost 60 years old. They have one thing in common: death.

Harlow is a rich disciple of the upper class, living a wealthy life, but taciturn, thinking about how to taste the taste of death every day.

Japanese New Sensationist Kawabata Yasunari said: "Death is the ultimate beauty, death is the rejection of all understanding. Life is not the opposite of death, death lurks in life."

Harlow is a supporter of death, he enjoys the beauty brought to him in the process of death, and he also expresses his attitude towards his mother in the way of death.

Only one death in his life, and countless attempts to die, that is his wish.

Harlow has disguised suicide scenes at least fifteen times, including hanging himself, cutting his veins, drowning, swallowing a gun...every time he enjoyed it, and his mother had long been accustomed to his suicidal behavior.

In order to let Harlow get rid of the quirks, his mother arranged for him many blind dates, but Harlow scared away the blind date through special reception methods: one self-immolation, one chopped hands, one cut abdomen...

Harlow's desire for death became more and more addictive, he even bought himself a hearse and drove it to the funeral of strangers.

At a funeral, he met Mude, who was about to be 80 years old. Mude, like Harlow, has a quirk of obsession with death. After meeting several times at funerals, the two people gradually met and knew each other.

When meeting people with similar interests, Harlow became cheerful and laughed, and they frequently began to touch each other's lives.

Mu De is a strange old woman. In addition to her obsession with death, she also likes to find pleasure through smell and touch: she made a gas collector that can "suck" two different gasses from time to time; she made a wooden thing , To touch it to find the pleasure of sexual desire.

And this crazy old woman, Mude, who is nearly 80 years old, is actually a Jew who had survived in a Nazi concentration camp. She has experienced death and has a contemptuous attitude towards everything in society. Car theft, violation of regulations, arrest...all the rules and regulations in society she sneered at.

Maybe it was because of the common death fetish, maybe it was the restraint of Harlow by the rules of the upper society, Harlow fell in love with Mude like a demon.

Although true love has nothing to do with age and race, 20-year-old Harlow and 80-year-old Mude fell in love with each other, and they also rolled the sheets, which really subverted the three views.

This may also be a story that only movies can make.

It is said that the interesting soul is one in a thousand. It is possible that a "weird" who suffers from a rare quirk and preference, meets another with the same preference, and will be fascinated and attached psychologically and physically.

There are many movies about people’s quirks, such as the quirks of eating nail clippers in "Nail Clippers", the quirks of cosmetic surgery addiction in "Embarrassed", the cannibal quirks in "Hannibal", and "Stories in Stories" The flea breeding quirks, "Rocky Horror Show" transvestism... the story in the movie is really refreshing, unclear.

But having said that, "Harlow and Mude" is really the smallest and freshest in alternative movies. There are beautiful love scenes in the movie, a funny and interesting plot setting, and a particularly nice background music.

Maybe the few songs in the movie alone are enough to make you like this movie.

The ending of "Harlow and Mouder" is a bit sad, and the elderly Mouder never survived 80 years old.

On her birthday, Harlow arranged champagne and flowers, but Mude said she was leaving, she swallowed enough sleeping pills, and she wanted to die at the best moment.

This time she really died, ending her longing and fascination with death.

As for Harlow, after witnessing the death of his most beloved Mude, he also began to have a new understanding of life and began to fear death.

Maybe in the next days, he will no longer be obsessed with death, but learn to cherish life, learn to enjoy life, be optimistic, cheerful, and positive.

All this was taught to him by Morte, the old man who had indulged and rebelled with him.

View more about Harold and Maude reviews

Extended Reading
  • Archibald 2022-04-23 07:02:34

    The male protagonist is very cute><48 years old, when he was 23 years old. old man now

  • Norval 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Best black romantic comedy of all time? Hal Ashby tries for something so far-fetched, so absurd and subversive that it will only resonate with a few. Its ambition and aesthetics are reminiscent of Dadaism, while its dandy characters feel like the eccentric successors of Des Esseintes from “A Rebours” by Huysmans (1884). Dark, dead-pan humor along an artistic style & intellectual tone shape its mood - death and simulated suicide constantly hanging over. It never fades into nihilism though. Instead, Harold & Maude can be construed as an inspired parable conveying a simple but authentic philosophy of life, an ode to unbounded love and life freed from social norms & disciplinary institutions.

Harold and Maude quotes

  • Maude: Please sit down, Harold. I'll put the kettle on. We'll have a nice, hot cup of tea.

    Harold: Thank you but I really have to go.

    Maude: But it's oat straw tea! You've not had oat straw tea, have you?

  • Harold: Do you often model for Glaucus?

    Maude: Oh, heavens, no! I don't have the time but I like to keep in practice and poor Glaucus occasionally needs his memory refreshed as to the contours of the female form. Do you disapprove?