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Love In Harold And Maude

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Love affects us all in different ways, and throughout the film “harold and Maude” we the audience get to this in Harold. The friendship and romance between HArold and Maude affects and changes the character of Harold. In the beginning of the film Harold’s character is very dark and depressing. The outfits that Harold would wear was mostly only dark clothing. Harold also enjoyed attending funerals, Harold would go to funerals even if he did not know the person. Staging suicides is something that is done a few times by Harold in an attempt to get her attention. Maude and Harold meet at one of the activities they both enjoyed, attending funerals. The two although both liked the funerals, it was for very different reasons. Maude enjoyed

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