Revisiting Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"

Haskell 2022-03-20 09:01:34

The Criterion Collection 11#

Watch the face of death. Start with the death of a passerby.

The folk music in the burlesque is quite classic.

After the carnival, there is a heavy procession of death and priests, people torn between life and death.

Bergman's grasp of the human face makes every such shot in the film astounding.

Scene scheduling and camera movement are dramatic.

A section of the god of death sawing a tree is very tense.

For the discussion of mercy.

Only new life is the only way and meaning to fight death.

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Extended Reading

The Seventh Seal quotes

  • Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.

  • Jöns: Love is the blackest of all plagues... if one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love, but you don't die of it.