Original sentence: Harold stages realistic mock-suicides.Her backstory is only hinted in the film.Maude is very much his opposite: a senior citizen, energetic, impulsive, and light-hearted.She imagines beauty where there is none, believes in the innate goodness of people (but not the State), and practices what she calls her own individual revolution.The film is number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Moviesand in 1997, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.The film was a commercial failure when it was released and critics were divided.While Harold is part of a society where he can have no importance and no meaning, Maude has survived against totalitarianism
Edited sentence: (In a brief glance, Harold sees a tattoo of an identification number on Maude's forearm.)  While Harold is part of a society where he can have no importance and no meaning, Maude has survived against totalitarianism.Harold and Maude would be a strange film no matter when it was released, but, even in the excessive cinema of the 1970s, it was stridently out of step with mainstream cinema.Harold stages realistic mock suicides.Her backstory is only hinted in the film, for Ashby avoids any didacticism.In 1997 it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.It was a commercial failure when it was released and divided critics.Its cult appeal lay in its black comedic suicides and the alienation Bud Cort conveyed.Maude is very much his opposite: energetic, impulsive, and light-hearted.Most audiences could focus on little more than the idea of romantic love between the old and young (while the act of sex is implied and then confirmed verbally, the relatively minor act of mouth to mouth kissing is not actually shown in the movie).She imagines beauty where there is none, believes in the innate goodness of people (but not the state), and practices what she calls her own, individual, revolution.The film is number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies