Harold and Maude

I have seen this film a long time ago and loved it, and watching it was way better than the Presidential Debate, which was in at the same time.

Harold, a young boy obsessed with death, meets Maude, an old beautiful woman with similar interests, at a funeral. Though the timeline is only a week, Maude teaches Harold the fundamentals and beauty of life.

In one scene, Harold asks about an umbrella Maude hangs on the wall of her house, and she talks about how she rebellious and patriotic, in Europe, in her younger years, but quickly drops the subject when she says, "That was before..." and becomes silent. Later, Harold discovers on her arm a tattooed number. The cutaway was very quick, but it meant she is a survivor of the Holocaust.

Maude, surviving death at the Holocaust, decided to live her life to the fullest, spreading love everywhere, and accepting beauty in everything, like when she models nude for a local artist. To her, being old doesn't mean she isn't beautiful. 

Sadly, Maude took the euthanasia pills on her eightieth birthday, breaking Harold's heart and snapping him back into reality. Maude's death makes him realize the gift of life is nothing to play with, and he should live the life he was given.