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pavan2185

The movie definitely rekindled thoughts I used to have in my early twenties or late teens about God and why he doesn't do anything about the suffering and pain in this world and there by doubting his existence. This movie is thought provoking at places but I didn't not enjoy watching this movie as much as I did watching Persona.

3 years 9 months ago

Siskoid

It's very weird watching Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal after his version of Death has been parodied in so many well-remembered comedies (a wide range, from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey to Last action Hero), and then discovering that, for all the hoopla about the terse Waiting Women being Bergman's one comedy, this is actually QUITE funny, if darkly so. The bit with Death cutting down a tree, and Gunnar Björnstrand's caustic squire commenting on the smith and his wife making up, had me grinning in what is otherwise an existential and metaphysical piece about whether or not there's an afterlife and what it might mean to Max von Sydow's crusader. You can't outplay Death, but maybe you can draw the game out long enough to make a difference with the Man Upstairs, all the while questioning whether he exists at all and if it's all pointless. The witch burning scene struck me as something of a riposte to Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, its implications more disquieting. Despite some dark material, quite a bit more fun than most Bergman films, I still prefer his more subtle and actor-driven meditations on the subject of God's silence (Winter's Light strikes me as the most powerful).

4 years 3 months ago

Arrows

amazing!!!

9 years ago

mono-no-aware

So many scenes from this film are iconic. I still get shivers when I hear the music kick in for the procession of flagellants.

9 years 6 months ago

lucabott

A chess game. Life. Death. Faith. A response to the most ancient questions of the human being.

10 years ago

Bruks Lima

Muito bom, cheio de referências interessantes.

10 years 1 month ago

Robbimich

Might possibly be the worst film I've seen. Smultstrollet (Wild Strawberries) by Ingmar Bergman is much more interesting and enjoyable.

10 years 9 months ago

Peeorpoo

The confession scene was just amazing.

10 years 9 months ago

Rigters

How a movie about death, turns out to be really beautiful and a true masterpiece? Simply incredibly!

I question myself many times about God's silence and if he truly exists. This movie makes you think very much and that's so good!

10 years 11 months ago

BlackEmperor

The last clip of the movie was astonishing. The chess games too and this movie is very good, because it puts us to think about the God's existence and the inevitability of death. As a movie, it didn't disappoint. 8/10

11 years 1 month ago

Persona14

I love this film so much!
(...and btw, if someone here haven't heard Scott Walker's song The Seventh Seal you're really missing out on a 60's masterpiece!!)

11 years 2 months ago

devilsadvocado

It seems silly to try and appraise such an established work of art; a presumptuous deed equivalent to some little modern day art snob having a stab at the Mona Lisa. At this stage in the history of film, it would be arrogant to do anything beyond simply accepting The Seventh Seal for what it is. This doesn’t mean one has to like it, but at the very least one can respect it. For the record, I enjoyed it.

If you do feel inclined to measure it using some sort of barometer, I suppose you might do so by gauging its strength in eliciting that gut-wrenching feeling one is doused with in confronting “the abyss.” If you’ve ever done acid or suffered from schizophrenia or gone through some type of existential despair or near death experience, then you’ll know what I’m referring to. As a person who has dealt with at least one of the aforementioned, Bergman’s classic resonated quite intensely with me and I know that many of its images will be forever burned inside my mind (particularly those involving Antonius Block and the Witch). There is of course also the lighter saving grace of the film, represented through the optimistic performer and his family, which struck its own personal chord with me as well.

I won’t bother trying to rate this one, but I take no issue in calling it a masterpiece or at least an important work.

11 years 2 months ago