cricketbat The Seventh Seal is a special kind of film because it deals directly with the reality of death, yet it retains a feeling of hope. Ingmar Bergman projects his fear of the unknown on the screen and, as an audience, we are able to relate because we've all felt the same type of fear. It is a beautiful film and it features iconic images and ideas. This is truly a classic.

adonis98-743-186503 A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. The Seventh Seal is not the masterpiece that everyone makes it sound like and unfortunately it just doesn't hold up at all. It's a film that even a terrific actor such as Man Von Sydow can't save from falling apart plus i found it very slow paced and boring and just not my kind of thing you know? It's a film beautiful in terms of visuals but really disappointing on every other important level that it shouldn't be. (0/10) (F)

adam-may-bower 'The Seventh Seal' is a metaphorical masterpiece by Ingmar Bergman. This film is a brilliant artwork that asks big existential and religious questions that every human being as pondered some point in their life. Set in the harrowing and dim Middle Ages during the Black Plaque, Bergman captivates his audience into a world of anger, fear, sorrow and doubt and engages the audience in an beautiful narrative that follows the troubled knight Antonius Block, played brilliantly by Swedish actor Max von Sydow. While the film is evidently dated, it has never lost it's remark-ability. It almost seems incomparable with modern films today. Scene after scene, Bergman's philological film takes it's audience on a journey with it's characters and even though it may ask many questions and leave few answers, you leave the film feeling more knowledgable on your life and where you are headed. The brilliancy of this film is that Bergman does not try to convince his audience to believe his "protestant atheist" views, but rather just show them. He presents atheistic views one character, and then a faithful, religious view another leaving this film to be unbiased and essentially encourages individuals of any view to think with an open mind.

Ali Davari Did you ever questioned the beyond? How about existence? What death would be like and how to face the end? ..or the beginning?! The Seventh Seal is about Bergman's inner personal questions and thoughts that he was wondering about during his lifetime. We see as his perspective through the movie seeking for a meaning for everything that been told to us since we were too young to question them. It's not attend to be critical at anything at all, Just the things that a kid or a simple human being would ask to himself about all the meaning and beyond and death subjects. Would it be challenging? Definitely. But who else could have done it in a better way. Characters are so symbolic and all each represent to a form of human way of thinking and perspective. From a knight crusade to a circus clown they got much different ways of seeing and understand things from whatsoever happen around them to the all philosophical questions in life that would cross our minds. But Bergman is the director that could fit them so perfectly in a frame all together that not only it's so meaningful but still enjoyable to watch every minute of it. you can still watch the movie and enjoy it even if you don't seek a meaning or never questioned things or simply you don't care about these stuff. The plot narrate during medieval period that religions were reigning not only the lands but to more efficiently the thoughts and minds. Where every word of the bishop was absolute and the only salvation were in the hands of church, was there any room to question those things?! Well, You better watch this movie to find out whole.