Harold is an extremely weird individual. He's clearly obsessed and interested with death beyond the norm. In the beginning of the movie he tried to hang himself possibly to get his mother's attention, meanwhile she just ignored him. Soon after Harold staged a bathroom death where there was blood all over the mirror and on himself. Harold even dries a hearse. These are just two examples of Harold's weird obsession with death. When he's at a funeral for a random person which he does regularly he meet's an old woman named Maude who just happened to be chilling at the funeral. They immediately click since there both just weird people. The significance of the theme of death in the life of Harold is clear he drives a hearse around( very odd because I didn't even know that was legal), he usually wears a lot of black fancy clothing which he can afford since his family is rich, and he pretends to kill himself which eventually will scare his mother to death and give her a heart attack. The music for the movie is also incredibly odd since it sounds like music you would play for someone at their funeral. Harold's mother finally sends him to a psychiatrist who does absolutely nothing for him. I mean the man goes to funeral's for fun and stages suicides for fun why wasn't he placed in a psych ward or something. A new thing I noticed is Harold is extremely pale, he simply looks death I'm sure this was done intentionally by him to fit in with his death practices. While Harold's psychiatrist continues to try to crack him Harold says he has no friends and if he does he has one who is probably Maude. To beat his mother's antics Harold stages some more suicides for his dates and of course it sends them running. Harold clearly wants affection from his mother, which is something which his psychiatrist should have noticed a long time ago. This is probably the cause for his disturbed outtake on life. When Harold tells Maude the story of himself dying the first time in school ending with his mothers collapse after hearing his alleged death Harold decided to himself he enjoyed being dead. This is probably what let Harold to joining the society for which he lives without meaning. I was quite shocked to find that Harold wasn't happy to join the army, since he would be surrounded by death. He would be seeing death, and participating in death. What more could he possibly want?For Harold Maude gives him purpose in life and allows him to finally enjoy living.
Maude takes Harold to her house where he instantly captivated by all of her death items. It turns out her home also looks like a funeral home, she has a piano, lots of flowers, and the windows of a church home( the ones with Jesus). Maude seems to have taken a liking to Harold so now they are both being weird together. Going to watch cranes take out buildings, going to funerals, going on dates at the cemetery, accompanying each other as Maude steals cars. There made for each other. Maude also doesn't seem as interested in death practices as Harold because when she told Harold the story of her umbrella she actually got emotional. The indicated to me that she was human and death did make her uncomfortable. I have noticed Maude has a very carefree attitude to life and death as we see in the end when she essentially kills herself. She basically does what she want's living life to the fullest and death also. Maude believes 80 years is enough to live for a reason which I don't know so she kills herself.
Mrs. Chasen is a woman who should under the utmost scrutiny also. Her son is crazy and I doubt all of his problems came from himself. Mrs. Clasen doesn't show any affection for him what so ever. She's to controlling and snotty and I'm sure Harold finds this annoying. Although they are rich and she provides him with everything he could want materialistically speaking. It's clear to me she doesn't appreciate Harold's weird obsession with death as she buys him a jaguar instead of a hearse which he was currently driving.
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