Harold and Maude
One of the movies that mage a huge impact on my life was Harold and Maude. If you've never seen it, it puts the Quirk in Quirkiness. But for some reason it really struck me when I saw it in my early 20s. The storyline is about Nineteen-year-old Harold Chasen who is obsessed with death. He fakes suicides to shock his self-obsessed mother, drives a customized Jaguar hearse, and attends funerals of complete strangers. Seventy-nine-year-old Maude Chardin, on the other hand, adores life. She liberates trees from city sidewalks and transplants them to the forest, paints smiles on the faces of church statues, and “borrows” cars to remind their owners that life is fleeting—here today, gone tomorrow! A chance meeting between the two turns into a madcap, whirlwind romance, and Harold learns that life is worth living. As you can imagine, I totally identify with Maude, but at the time I was 20. I also always felt at that time like I would not find my soulmate. The concept of being almost...