Harold and Maude

with Ruth Gordon

Viewed July 12, 2025

Feel free to come and share your own personal insights sometime; the Saturday Night Video and Discussions here in Austin, Texas are a lot of fun and fascinating. (They're free, too.) Here are the questions the group came up with, based on the personal growth themes in the movie:

HAROLD AND MAUDE

  1. When am I most my real true self? How do I recognize my true self?
  2. What is standing in the way of me being free and being myself?
  3. What or who tries to influence me to be other than myself?
  4. Who is filling in my "spaces"?
  5. When have I been willing to break conventions and the norms to do something different?
  6. How many times have I committed suicide by not being myself? When have I let others shut me down?
  7. What's the scariest part of being myself?
  8. How have I protected myself from perceived danger?
  9. What was the impetus that inspired me to be truly myself? That inspired me to want to be like everybody else?
  10. What is my motivation for looking outside of myself to find out who I should be?
  11. What have been the grand losses in my life, and how have I dealt with them?
  12. When have I experienced a major significant loss in my life that was totally unexpected?