A feeling from a long time ago, the right thing is that it doesn't match the film review at all. I hope that I can come back and revise it after watching it a few times in the future. 2020.06.09
What are we supposed to live for? If faith is a weapon that uses pain to lash out at our ignorance, then being a cynic is a must. If desire is a shortcut that leads us to pure self-discovery, then indulging in sound and sensuality is beautiful. If death is the arrow on the string to force us to victory and decisiveness, then helpless anger is also a Muppet. I myself know very little about philosophy and religion. In this film, the game between Brock and the god of death easily reminded me of the allusions of "a thousand sails pass by the side of a sinking boat, and a thousand trees spring in front of a sick tree", and the story of the goddess Chess is a big gamble, and the price of this game is immeasurable and the closest to the essence. In my opinion, the bet between the Crusader Bullock and the God of Death started as a "lack of rigor", a kind of passive escape from the world, and the game after that is not only a contest between the two, but also a philosophical one. In the Middle Ages when the Black Death spread, fear and ignorance and disease devoured people together. We can see that people in this society used fear to oppress the people, and used "guilt" to completely convince the people that everything in front of them had a clear cause and effect. To believe that the result of evil retribution must be repaid with one’s own physical and mental punishment. The brainwashing of religion here seems to us now and ignorance was a sedative for the general public at that time. In addition to religion, there is also a group of people with individual desires. Maybe my words are not accurate. The individual desires here refer to desires that are not mixed with social attributes, or they are called rebels. Their activity in the environment of the Black Death is actually a change close to reality, and their activity is to a certain extent a rebellion against the secular. Avid arsonists are not surprising in a world full of darkness. Aside from the two clearly separated ones, the ones that bothered me the most were the Reaper, the Virgin, Bullock, and the circus actors. In my opinion, they are capable to a certain extent, but their helplessness is puzzling. So I ventured to guess that the director wanted to use them to express a kind of nihility and resentment. Because when I read it, apart from not being able to understand the emotions that followed, I was powerless, unable to save myself, falsified my beliefs, and there was a kind of deep pain deeply rooted in it. In the end, I still have a lot of feelings about "The Seventh Seal". The expression is limited and cannot be fully expressed, and many question marks remain in my heart. In that time and space, anger, revelry, and chaos slowly open up the boundaries of thought. "The Seventh Seal" is like Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Questions", both possess the arrogance of romanticism, but they are fragrant in different places and time and space.
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