"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Soren Kierkegaard

I just had some revelations while watching this movie and thinking about Soren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" and wanted to share the following: Contrary to a line in this video, Faith is indeed a product of Reason, but not a parallel process. Instead, Faith begins where Reason was exhausted. It's imperative to delineate between the premature abandonment of Reason and the exhaustion of the faculty of Reason pertaining to each individual's capacity to think. The former will only lead to a fool's conclusion or no conclusion at all. It is when we've truly exhausted all reason - when we are trapped and reason accurately informs us that there is no escape - that we are presented with the free choice to voluntarily abandon ourselves to Faith, or the absurd, as it is known by the reasoning mind.

When Antonius in the confession booth says to Death, "I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face, and speak to me." It hit me in my soul. I believe that God exists, but I also want to be sure that He does

Don't stop making these man, I know there are only two videos and less views right now but this is really quality content; the success of this channel is a matter of time and not chance if you keep putting in work like this! Best of luck and faith!

RIP Max von Sydow ... you'll always be remembered ... what we do in life echoes in eternity

Goddamn, you're underrated, man! This video should be recommended to more people. You're doing God's work.

Wow. only 550 views? this is so well-done and amazing. thanks...

The battle that wages on in the heart of humans since the dawn of time is well represented by this movie this is still one of the best piece of cinematography it's a gift that it can be watched free of cost on KZfaq

Honestly,one of the best video I’ve seen on KZfaq.Great job man

Such a great channel, so glad I found it. Keep up the excellent work!

Truly a great video! Not only do you give a great insight into the movie and Kierkegaards philosophy but you also produced great visuals!

Best review/essay I hace found on YT, thank you!

Simply great, thank you for this video and it's insights. I always come back to rewatch it from time to time.

I would like to thank you deeply from my heart and mind for making this video for you have made me think!

This was beautiful. Thank you!

Man, I don't know if you stopped making content but thank you so much for what you have maked yet.

Spectacular video! I'm looking forward to more!

I hope you find the time to keep making these, this video was just outstanding. I watched the movie tonight and came to KZfaq to see if anyone had a great video essay. You made it so I wasn’t disappointed.

I keep coming back to this video, it’s truly fantastic. I hope you make more in the future as a screenwriter, this is content I adore. Hope you’re doing well mate!

Short but an incredibly good video, you deserve more subs - and if you keep putting good shit like this out, I'm sure you'll get them!

such a great and underrated video, those 4:30 minutes felt like 1. you deserve waaay more views. just subscribed, looking forward to whatever you make after this!

I discover this video in the early morning before the day starts. Thank you! ❤

Thanks for making this video, at the moment I can't fully appreciate it cause I need to rewatch the movie so I can make my thoughts more clear, but I sure will be coming back herr to ponder over and over your observations, thanks brother.

Just watched this film for 1st time last night. Loving all the vids on youtube to help learn more. Great video!

fantastic script, great video editing and exposition of Kierkegaard ❤

Such an underrated channel keep up the good work mate

Very well done man!

very good video. overall aesthetic, text, music and the theme itself. the seventh seal is my favorite movie. congratulations and good luck. god bless you

terrific video man, hope to see more

Great video, the best analysis of the seventh seal I've seen so far. Most are just so shallow

Your really talented man never stop

Lovely, beautiful stuff!

Truly a well done video

i've seen this film and was so moved by it without being able to say why. But now i know lol. I read fear and trembling, yet i hadn't seen the connections, you are pointing excaclty what i could feel but not see in the movie ! And this video => great writing, great editing hope to see more content :D

Great job!

Great video!

Excellent short essay, thanks a lot!

I relate too much with Antonius for my own good.

Showing this video to my philosophy department. This is fantastic.

This was so good. infinitely deep.

Amazing video!

Great job. Thanks

This is an amazing video

really well-done analysis of the movie - thank you :)

Excellent video. Nicely rudimentary

Hey man, I loved the video.

excellent take on a great movie

good work, keep it up!

Love this.

That was amazing. Respect to the creator

Incredible summary.

Excellent

this is crazy good

Great video, you inspired me to make my own! Thank you!! 🙂

Thank you so much! One small thing: as well Ingmar Bergman as Max von Sydow and the rest of the actors and the film crew are Swedish, thus it makes little sense to mention “the shores of Denmark”.

I love this video❤

This video was superb, but it also made me envious...I wish I had made this video.

Brilliant.

AMAZING

Great video about a great movie and a great book

Brother is using Lex Vilenna as background music. Well done.

This movie was very uplifting to me. It is a man’s goal to become childlike and innocent of heart, and only then will he be revealed the world in clear form.

Absolutely superb ! Too bad that it was too short. The music setup was perfectly done! Continue creating these magical short videos. I'll continue waiting for them.

Interesting how religion affects philosophy

Time to rewatch Bergman's magnum opus!!

Long considered one of the greatest films of all time, Bergman’s medieval drama of the soul can be difficult to watch but is impossible to forget. Though the film's theme, the silence of God and the horror of death if there is no afterlife, is an essentially religious one, The Seventh Seal doesn't really deal with religion or God as such, but with the place of God and religion in the human heart and human society. 2:22 [Decent Films Reviews]

Would you please provide much more similar contents.

I should have commented sooner but this video is truly a master piece in a simple yet beautifully well done manner. I first watched this when I completed one of my final essays for my high school philosophy course where I chose the film the seventh seal in regards to a philosophical relationship with Kierkegaard and sigmund freuds psychoanalysis Id,Ego,Super Ego. Applying these theories to the film. Finished with a 98 in philosophy and I absolutely loved that course. Certainley want to dive deeper into Kierkegaard. I actually cited this yt video in my essay bibliography page, because this video added to my points and gave me reassurance with new information about my research!! Thank you again and just wondering what mic did you use for this video. I am planning to start a podcast about history, philosophy, science and literature. I need a budget setup and just wondering which mic was used for this vid. Also you should definetly start a podcast if you have not done so already!! Best regards, Nicholas

F**ing brilliant

Even though I am danish and could read Kierkegaard in native language, I fear it is a rabbit hole I would never come out of. I am quite comfortable not knowing.

I'M ON A HOLY JOURNEY HERE IS ONE STOP APPARENTLY

This is a bit of a nitpick but as a swede this (0:46) is a bit triggering 😂 The movie is actually set in Sweden

You should make one for the documentary "the smashing machine". You can watch the documentary on KZfaq.

I really like this. Question do you think Jof is Kierkagaard's Knight of Faith?

Det sjunde inseglet as it is called in Swedish is a masterpiece.

I love you

Love your neighbor and you will be rewarded. It's an easy Way. ❤

I don’t think where reason ends faith begins - they seem inextricable to me. But I think where faith really starts is where the heart begins. So many are dead spiritually in this generation and I can only suppose it is because they did not go out into this world and let their heart govern their decisions. They chose cruelty and not kindness and even now when the Truth is self evident, they still persist in choosing relentless cruelty every day, and the rolling of a stone.. 🕊❤️✝️🙏

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Faith and a dollar buys you a coffee.

Nice video, wish there was a subtitle though. Some non-english speaker and deaf viewers would appreciate that.

this was Max von Sydons breakout movie.. very great movie

@4:24 i think it is both those things. But like everything, there are conditions, and the conditions that which your arrive at the faith borne from a fit of passion are usually very tumultuous and damaging. Anyone I know that has found it in such a way has endured what was for them a crazy trial. But faith like said earlier in the video being acted out does make it a skill in a sense because you act it out over time. And like anything you do with repetition, you tend to improve at or fail at less often. This story kind of abstracts that in a way, because the Knight is both having a fit of passion at death's door, and is acting out faith gradually with keen awareness of his impending mortality?

When will you do more videos brother?

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A shame you didnt make more vids

0:47 -- The movie takes place in Sweden, not Denmark.

How can you possibly be so smart and also be a Christian? Faith and reason are like oil and water - they have never mixed well.

Why would someone like Antonius Block, the knight, be afraid or unwilling to die? Heaven awaits, correct?

Subbed. Moar.

Awesome and beautifully done video. But this is set in Sweden, not Denmark. Do you want to start a war? 😂

I watched this move for the first time the other day. I don't know, I didn't care for this movie very much.

Well, that’s where I part with Kierkegaard. I’m not a Protestant. I think that not only do Christianity benefit from Faith and Reason, but all religions.

You’re talking about the apophatic tradition.

One thing I don't get is, if Death is personified, then Antonius has tangible proof of something that is beyond the natural which in this case that of a spirit or some spiritual embodiment of death itself, so why then can't Antonius realize that the same must be true of God even though he hasn't been able to see him yet? If there is a spiritual, personified equivalent to death, then how hard can it be then to believe in some spiritual, personification of the Creator? Assuming that this was not an accident, then could the movie be making the argument that even if there was something that could be considered as proof of God's existence presented before the very eyes of a person, even if only circumstantial as it were, that we are too rational to even believe it anyway? It would be a relevant thing to consider in the topic of reason vs faith, I believe. But if it was an accident, then it sort of renders the whole movie pointless, and Antonius' internal struggle moot. It's like if I struggled to believe in God, and then one day I saw the ghost of my dead relative, and yet still denied the existence of God. Ghosts themselves would be the very proof that there is more out there like an afterlife, so at the very least I think I would have no more room to doubt the possibility of a life after death. And if I get as far as that, then it's not inconceivable to think that there might be something like a heaven, and where there is a heaven, then there MIGHT be something LIKE God living in it. In other words, by seeing a ghost or Death itself personified, you are closer to proving that God exists than proving he doesn't exist, hence it weakens the main characters internal struggle with his own faith because he should believe since the presence of Death itself opens up the possibility to God's existence. Maybe the realm inhabited by Death and the realm inhabited by God are two different things, and one doesn't imply the existence of the other? That's the only way this whole thing works, but then if souls are real and that's what Death is there to take, then those souls must come from somewhere. If there are no souls, then why is Death there to begin with? Death says "come with me," which begs the questions, to what place and "what" is he taking?

Sweden.. not Denmark.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acCjpLCblbncfmw.html 1500 yrs ago the Hindu Sages wrote book of Upanishads where the boy Nachiketa asks Yama, the God of Death for the questions of knowledge about life and death . And Yama , the god of death, replies to it saying that these questions have not been known/answered even by the Gods themselves. But as Nachiketa persists, the God of death begans his discourse.

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Faith is interesting, but how does one choose, from an infinity of options, what to believe? And what people believe is almost 100% determined by their cultural context, and thus seems an unlikely path to universal truth.