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.
"People always say like:'seize the moment.'But I think it's the other way round,the moment seizes us."难想象波澜不惊的叙述突然在长大成人的那瞬间迸发出一种催泪的洪荒感片尾回想起六岁那年他搬家时用油漆涂掉门框上的身高记号十二年的时间便重新在我们身上重新汹涌流逝了一次