We called out to God in the wilderness and got no response, but we cried out desperately. When you are alive, you call on God, and when you are about to die, you fantasize about the god of death, hoping to question God through the god of death. If God is the answer, death is like a red cross, a kind of verdict, God's spokesman for death. But he is not God after all, not the answer. People are familiar with death but completely unfamiliar with God. Whether it is living happily or suffering, only human beings respond, and the wilderness is their own echo.
People have to split into a taller image and then talk to themselves. This seemingly schizophrenic behavior, according to the psychoanalyst Freud, is the "superego", a god played by himself. Bergman is playing God, the knights of "The Seventh Seal" are playing God, the socially recognized "God" - the church, is playing God, a thousand people have a thousand gods, but I am afraid they will always be in their hearts. Just ask.
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