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The silent God, again?

The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde insegle, Swedish; 1957)
Written and Directed by Ingmar Bergman
A classic regarding the filmmaker's favourite topic, The Silence of God. As usual, people in power would always decree that this is God's decree and one should lead their lives by His Book. Despite what appears like acts of barbaric and inhumane nature, some things need to be done for the greater good of humankind, so they say, even though it makes no sense. These types of nonsensical actions seem to continue till today.

 The Seventh Seal is a film with a heavy theological reference set in medieval time Sweden.

 Antonio Block is a disgruntled knight who is returning from the Crusade War to be with his wife. As he and his errand Gian, discover a country plagued with the Black Death and cruelty done in the name of God. Block is visited by Death, but he managed to postpone his time after a game of chess which would go on intermittently throughout the length of the film and end at the tail end of it.
Along with his trip back to his castle, he meets a performing troupe, infidelity, burning of young women labelled as witches and people dying infected with the plague.

 He tries to find answers to his questions on God and death through the Church, Death and from those at the cusp of death but to no avail.

 He finally reaches his castle with his friends, has their last supper together, and makes their final trip with Death.....

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