Saturday, April 22, 2017

Harold and Mod

In the excerpts we saw from the film Harold and Mod, I particularly liked the one in which they discuss the ideas of uniformity and being unique. This takes place after they have had a picnic in a place where they are loudly smashing cars to bits. I found this to be quite ironic and hysterical as typically one imagines a picnic as in a fairly calm and peaceful environment, perhaps in a field or park, or by a body of water. After their picnic, there is a seen of them on a pond, during which Harold communicates that he wants to be a daisy, as they are all alike. Mod disagrees and offers correction, suggesting that they are not all alike. She points out that just like the stones of a cemetery, that from a distance and indiscriminate, closer up they all have a different inscription, just as it is with the daisies. She submits that in this way, each individual is unique because of their unique experiences on the earth and way in which they view the world. This opinion goes against the idea that all these soldiers went off to war and died (a sort of uniformity). The numbers of deaths and names are provided, but how can one distinguish one death from the rest?

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