{"id":28699,"date":"2023-05-30T19:21:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T18:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28699"},"modified":"2023-05-30T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T22:15:57","slug":"a-review-of-the-odd-film-harold-and-maude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28699","title":{"rendered":"A review of the odd film &#8220;Harold And Maude&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI was chatting with an American friend and conversation turned to funerals. He mentioned a film from half a century ago &#8211; it was released in 1971 &#8211; that, in spite of being something of a film buff, I&#8217;d never heard of, let alone seen &#8211; so I looked it up.\n<p>\nHarold (Bud Cort) is a young man in his late teens who has had a privileged but dysfunctional life which has resulted in him having a passion for (fake) suicide, an obsession with (yes) funerals and (understandably) a depressed personality. \n<p>\nAt one of these funerals, he meets Maude (Ruth Gordon), a woman coming up to 80 who is even more eccentric than him but has an infectious exuberance for life. Somehow this movie manages to be both a black comedy and a love story with a life-affirming message.\n<p>\nWhen it was released, &#8220;Harold And Maude&#8221; was a critical and commercial flop, but it seems that, over the years, it has become something of a cult work. It&#8217;s certainly a curio. You might like to give it a go.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting with an American friend and conversation turned to funerals. He mentioned a film from half a century ago &#8211; it was released in 1971 &#8211; that, in spite of being something of a film buff, I&#8217;d never heard of, let alone seen &#8211; so I looked it up. Harold (Bud Cort) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28701,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions\/28701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}