nice point about people changing, but the young Maude who used her umbrella to fend off the police when participating in demonstrations would hardly have pleased Harold's mother!!
Harold changes...and that's one of the biggest points of the movie. He embraces life instead of fake suicides.
And to keep this post on topic, there's another brief but extremely clear anti-war indication in the film: Maude has on her forearm, the tattooed number of a [former] nazi concentration camp prisoner. To me that one brief shot says so much and is one of the greatest pointers to her free-for-all attitude to life and her extreme disregard of unthinking authority, but that's probably for another thread...
And while we're looking for anti-war messages in this film, let's not forget the picnic in the military cemetery...surely that slow zoom out as the camera withdraws and reveals where they are, is meant to make us stop and think about all the dead soldiers?
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aimeeandevan
12 years ago
About the military cemetary thing. Don't miss out on the beauty of the shot and juxtapositioning the similarities in appearance of flower beds of daisies and white headstones. I think it was meant to be more than just antiwar. Also showing how people are like daisies.
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