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December, 13th, 2008
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Kierkegaard's Narrative:

Harold and Maude

Colin Higgins, directed by Hal Ashby

This is an surprisingly sentimental movie for a comedy about suicide --a fact explained by the movie's existential humanist heart.

Protagonist: Harold
Aesthetic Preoccupation: Suicide
Affairs: Harold goes on a series of blind dates arranged by his mother.
Repetition: Harold's phony suicides are an attempt to recreate a single experience of emotional response from his mother.
Death: Maude
Existential Humanist Act: Harold's proposal to Maude

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