The seventh seal is such a visually stylish work, the black straits and sandy beaches, the cold winds and turbulent seas in northern Europe, two black horses standing in the stirring waves, the white-haired knight and the god of death. Playing chess, jof saw the Virgin dressed in Chinese costumes appearing, and the most shocking dance of death at the end...
Knight Antonius has a pair of cold and quiet eyes, and he has always faced the people he met with a bystander attitude during the journey. Harmony, in a non-involved manner, such as catching a thief, meeting a witch who is about to be burned, a woman taken in by a companion, a farce of a blacksmith's wife cheating... He himself said that he is indifferent to the people, and he is indifferent to this Socially out of place. What he has been doing is thinking about something deeper, beyond human suffering, that is, the existence of God. He struggled for answers, calling out to an unanswered God in the dark, and even trying to ask about God by contacting the devil (when asking a witch). The chess game between him and the God of Death is invisible to others. First, others cannot see the God of Death. Secondly, the game of life and death between him and the God of Death is a kind of conscious struggle that transcends time and space (so it is divided into a few Next time, the god of death may be very busy haha), maybe he knew from the beginning that he would definitely lose to the god of death, but he was just taking advantage of the last time he was dying to see if he could find the answer he wanted, after all He has already seen the god of death, so it is estimated that God is not far away.
However Death exists independently of God or the Devil, he is neither entrusted by God to "punish man" nor assigned by the Devil, he doesn't even know anything himself, so from him the knight can't get what he wants The answer, he was just a bit of a cunning executioner who took people's lives suddenly and without warning.
In the whole film, except for the miracles seen by jof, there seems to be no shadow of god or devil. When the group of ascetic people passed by the village, there was a cloud of smoke, the ascetic people were screaming and howling, the wounds of the whip were painted on their bodies, they preached terrible dejected speeches, and the people who struggled to carry the heavy cross... All this also made people feel the same. Can not feel the so-called God, only human self-torture. In the eyes of the witch, the knight only saw fear and nothing else, as if the devil did not exist. During this journey, it seems that all that can be seen is only the evil of human beings: stealing the property of the dead, burning witches, bullying the clown by the crowd, infidelity in love, deception and playing... The absence of God and the devil makes the knight feel His beliefs had become so vain, he didn't know what it meant to be alive, and his torment and pain had become worthless. The answers he was so desperately looking for about God might not exist at all.
It was such a knight who watched coldly and did not interfere with the personnel affairs around him, but overturned the chessboard, only to buy time for the jof family to escape, and finally exchanged for his own loss. His cold and emotionless eyes were full of human tenderness in that beautiful and peaceful afternoon, in wild strawberries, fresh milk, jof's brisk piano sound, Mia's young and loving face, and Mikael's lovely siesta. At this moment, he felt that those so-called thoughts about God, fate, life and death became so irrelevant. This family is so real and lovely, despite the dark age background ravaged by the Black Death, they still retain a pure and beautiful heart and live every day of their lives with a fool's mentality. The others in the same group seem to have been burdened with the heavy shackles of the times and fate: Jons seems to have seen through everything, and has a sneering and bitter attitude towards human nature, love, and fate, but at the same time he will not interfere. The person who does justice has the spirit of chivalry; the woman he took in was afraid of death and at the same time had an uncontrollable urge to welcome, (her eyes and the desire to approach the man who had the plague)...
In the end, everyone gathered around the dinner table and listened to the Apocalypse recited by the knight's wife (the picture depicted in the Apocalypse is really amazing, it's a fascinating apocalyptic color, it's no wonder that many movies like to quote this passage), and the god of death suddenly Appeared silently and without warning, with a sly smile. A noteworthy detail is that several characters seem to be trying to convince him that he is a good person and worth living when introducing himself to the god of death... However, to the god of death, death is equal to everyone , regardless of wealth or poverty, regardless of moral cultivation, no mercy, if it is your turn to die, you must die, and death will not tolerate or be angry, unless you are very lucky, you may escape the sight of death, or be forgotten by death.
Antonius probably didn't get the answers he wanted until he died, and the question of whether God really existed became irrelevant. He understands the precious, beautiful, pure things in life. The final dance of death, strange, dejected, powerless, unable to resist... just like death itself. The dying struggle is likened to a dance of joy, a play on the unpredictable life, and a celebration of consciousness beyond human beings, who have escaped from the suffering of the physical body and gained a spiritual free.
ps Reaper has a cheap and cute temperament. It's so hard to cut trees, laughing... These days, Reaper has to work hard by himself...
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