In the film 'The Seventh Seal' I was focused more so on the concept of questioning what happens after death? Despite belief or non-belief the only evidence for action beyond death is decay of a corpse and the continuation of time. This leads into the question of faith and knowledge, the same issue that Antonius Block struggled with. I think this hits home for many people because, at one point in life we question faith, and thus search for evidence. (Evidence can vary depending on person considering perception makes reality.) The actors (Joeseph and Mary) seemed to carry the faith more often. Although Joeseph had the visions and his wife did not believe him, nor could she see what he saw; Joeseph still had faith in his visions. He did not think he was not crazy, otherwise he would have stayed and considered that he may be crazy; and thus would have shared the same fate as the others. Adding to this, his wife did not see as he did yet she went with her husband and had faith in him.
It is interesting that the movie is called 'The Seventh Seal' when that part of the Bible is speaking of the final judgement of man. Death is fulfilling that judgement, and despite the various occupations or positions in the social system of life, Death did not descriminate. I was bothered that there was no reason given for the deaths. Death made a man fall out of a tree; couldn't the actor have climbed down and prevented it? Also in the end the people who were to be claimed by Death were not killed. There was no evidence of death, it made me wonder if it should be assumed that they had the plague, even though they showed no signs? There were many layers to chew on in this movie, and it made me think.
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