One of the best cult movies made has to be Harold & Maude, and no I don’t mean Harold and Kumar. Harold and Maude is a movie embedded with dark humor and collective philosophical views of life. One example that this movie gives is that love has no age limit; this is true to the characters Harold and Maude played by Ruth Gordon as Maude and Bud Cort as Harold. Maude is a wild mischievous old lady with a hippie attitude, while Harold is an eccentric dark young man who longs for his mother’s affection Mrs. Chasen played by Vivian Pickles. Mrs. Chasen knows there something odd about her son and wants him to act the way she wants him to act. Therefore Mrs. Chasen sent Harold to a psychiatrist, to the military with his Uncle Victor played by Charles Tyner, and also sets up Harold with blind dates in order to make him look normal in her eyes. All of that was useless for Harold and the one person that impacted his life more than his mother was Maude. Because of Harold’s obsession over death he came across Maude who eventually turned Harold’s perspective over death a different path. On a regular basis Harold would attend a strangers’ funeral because his obsession of wanting to die and wanting to experience every bit of death lead him to meet Maude. Maude has no reason being at the funeral either, but is there for her own entertainment. Both of them combine is an odd sight, but it turns out into a true genuine relationship throughout the movie and it is exciting to watch them together while going on to their adventures. This movie has a lot of dark humor and the theatrical scenes are well amplified with Harold’s death acts, it is as though you’re watching a gothic Shakespeare play.
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