Notes on Harold and Maude

• Head cut off in the beginning - could be any age, specially considering clothes
• Mother's clothes match house
• Mother domineering
• Harold's messy death obsession juxtaposed with neatness of how mother keeps house
• Dark red blood matches with furnishings
• More washed out colours around Harold
• crossed legs of therapist juxtapose with Harold's loose legs - confidence
• Cut after 'I go to funerals'  emphasizes
• Old lady sneezes and eats apple - alive and messy
•  Inside house similar colours and light to still life
• Robotic arm adds dark humour
• Harold has deathly pale complexion
• Symmetry of shots with mother in
• Suicides performed for his mother