While the actors are preparing for their performance, the manager says to Jof (according to English subtitles) “A fool like you can play the human soul.” That really is his role throughout the whole film.

I am from Sweden and this movie is my favourite Swedish movie. Ingmar Bergman is a big hero here.

I really love the fact that this is your first video on this channel, yet the editing, the pacing and the script of the video are just so spot on. I just bought the Ingmar Bergman collection from criterion and I am slowly discovering his movies, but I can say that each of his movies I have seen so far have deeply changed me. Great pick!

After decades of shunning Bergman because I thought his work to be too grim and intellectual, I finally broke down and watched The Seventh Seal recently. This video went along way toward explaining a film that raised many questions, but left the answers to the viewer. Thanks for making it.

Enduring the total lack of certainty in life we must choose whether we believe in God, or don't.

Just watched this film for the first time and this is the first commentary I've seen since, and the perspetives and points raised here are very much appreciated. I come away seeing that Jof is the most gainful character in this story because he's both a believer and he's someone who is kind and generous. Even if wholly deluded, he is the happiest of all the story's characters, and he does everything right by everyone he meets. Jof gave Block the best resolution to his search for meaning he could hope to find.

I caught a double feature couple years ago back in Ontario. Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries. Funny how tow very bleak flicks can end up being so life-affirming, like you put it. Great indeed!

Well done !

i love that woody line where he goes 'i started out jewish but converted to narcissism'.

great stuff!

As a Catholic this movie has interested me for a while.

Best Seventh Seal analysis i've seen, congrats man!

Really dug this. Thanks for the hard work to produce this video.

Hey really nice job with this video essay. I just watched this film for maybe the fourth or fifth time in my life and I think it has taken on extra weight both as I've gotten older and as we are now navigating this pandemic. One piece of dialogue that really supports a life-affirming perspective is when Antonius speaks about his reprieve from death as a chance for one last meaningful deed. Even in the face of calamity, each day above ground is an opportunity to cease our "futile wandering" and imbue new meaning into our lives. Such a great film.

Beautifully said...I've seen this film 3 a couple of times and it gave me quite an array of emotions, but this review gives it a whole new meaning... Long live art!

Congratulations friend, one of the best videos that I had saw, and also thanks to put subtitles in portuguese, I'm ok with english, but a lot of friends that doesn't know a single word, so the subtitles allows me to send this video to they, congratulations, great piece of art both the video and the movie.

just finished watching this and my god what a masterpiece-- i want knowledge!!!

You should make more videos on films, much more than you already have on your channel. Great work!

Timeless video

Amazing video! Just watched the Seventh Seal and I loved the philosophical background of the film!