Martin Scorsese once said, "If I had to choose a movie before I died, I would definitely choose The Seventh Seal." This sentence has two meanings. On the one hand, it expresses the old Martin The love for the film and the admiration for Bergman; on the other hand, it also reveals that the profound thoughts of this film are worth exploring for a lifetime. There are always individual directors clamoring about what their films are for people 10 years from now. In front of real film masters, they are like juggling monkeys. Bergman never explains his films, because he knows that his films are not for people of so-and-so years, people who saw them in those years, people who saw them 10 years later, and still see them 50 years later. Just like me 50 years later, a child who lived in the era of "Transformers" and "Spider-Man 3", in front of the master, all he can do is kneel down and look up reverently.
Decadence, depravity, cruelty, melancholy, ascetic, wild, lascivious, mysterious, evil, piety, a strange combination. And different people, in the darkness at the end of the century, also have different ways of living in the world. That's exactly what Bergman's film The Seventh Seal is about. Bergman personifies death as a god of death, and uses the god of death to chase and snare people, so that different people have different attitudes when they meet with the god of death, or are chased by the god of death. These people become the "typical" people in the world, and they encircle you and me as the audience.
Synopsis:
The story takes place in the Middle Ages, and a Crusader knight returns with his squires on an expedition, and on the way he encounters the incarnation of the god of death. At the time of the great plague raging in Europe, he dragged his exhausted body and was filled with questions that would take time to unravel: What is the meaning of life? What is the nature of death? He decides to play a game of chess with Death and let Death take him away if he loses. The chess game went down intermittently. The knight also continued his journey. What he saw and heard on the way made him gradually understand that the truth is the happiness of the world, and it is not the magic power of God that saves them, but that human beings nurture life and love each other. However, at this time, Death caught up with him and asked him to finish the unfinished chess. As a result, the Cavaliers lost. The next day, the Wanderer appears to have seen Death take the knight and drag him into a "skull dance" circle.
Through the idealistic knight Brock and his companions' wandering career on the plague-spreading European continent, the film shows the audience how different people behave in different ways in the face of death. The roots of faith and the existence of God raise tit-for-tat questions, while affirming the power of faith itself through the lives of actors Joseph's family. The film itself is full of obscure metaphors and symbolist compositions, and is arguably the film that best represents Bergman's style.
The knight Brock and his entourage are arguably the most important characters in the film. Brock is an idealist who, after returning from the Crusades, finds that his homeland has been swallowed by the plague, and the crusade's Action is also an act of sheer vanity. In his most painful time, he met the god of death who greeted him, but he was not willing to die in emptiness, he started a battle with the god of death-playing chess, Brock has been thinking about the pain, he felt To the emptiness of life and the etherealness of God, and feeling that his life seemed worthless, he said, "I will use this respite to do the most meaningful thing." In his confession to the priest (actually pretended to be Death), he raised a fundamental question to God "Empty is like a mirror, reflecting the empty self in it, it is really scary and frightening. Can't people really see Is God as he is? Why is he always hidden in those unrealistic miracles? Even if I can't believe in myself, how can I believe in other people, those who want to believe in God but can't really do it and What will be the fate of those who are neither willing to believe nor able A truth-seeking idealist, his life is full of burdens, and at the same time he is the only one who can communicate with death, and he is tormented by himself. But Brock's entourage is a typical realist. He has a calm and accustomed attitude to everything, and at the same time uses his keen observation to remind the people around him to stay awake. For the absurdity of death and fate, he never responded with any dissatisfaction or doubt. He understood everything and accepted everything. He is a man who lives with life and learns to ridicule in it.
The hypocrite is Rafa, who graduated from the seminary. He has the knowledge and morality of God in vain but practiced unrighteous things. He stole the property of the dead and sold it. . It was he who deceived Brock into joining the Crusades, and now his deception is getting more and more despicable, and finally his life is engulfed by the plague. People who live in chaos may represent the image of a lot of people - the blacksmith, the blacksmith's wife, the ska in the troupe. And such people are also the most in real life. They maintain some instincts of life. They have no clear beliefs, moral values, and no self-reflection consciousness. For them, life is to meet material and physical needs. . Ska once said that he was most suitable for the role of the god of death, and also read a line, but unfortunately all this did not touch his life. When the god of death really found him, he showed humble servility and incomplete personality.
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