Should you watch The Seventh Seal?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
The Seventh Seal
Film · 1957
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
The sides of The Seventh Seal
- A knight playing chess with Death
- Sweden under the plague
- A troupe of travelling actors
The Seventh Seal is good for you if…
- you like questions about God that nobody answers.
- you like black and white images that stay with you, like the dance of death on the hill.
- you like long conversations about faith and fear of dying.
The Seventh Seal is bad for you if…
- you find black and white films from the fifties dated.
- you won't read subtitles in Swedish.
- you need momentum, not a slow walk through the plague.
About: death · faith · the meaning of life
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