I first watched this film about 10 years ago and didn't absorb it as much as when I recently watched it again this year. This film highly influenced my thoughts about religion, life, death and morality. Swedish director Ingmar Bergman needs no introduction at all for a cinema fanatic.It is ignominious that today's young generation is hardly aware of his great works.He will be hailed as perhaps the only genuine cinema artist whose films changed the way films are watched. Most of his films have provoked heated discussions from cinema fans regardless of the fact whether they have liked them or not.If one observes Ingmar Bergman's career closely it would be revealed that almost all of his films were based on themes which were close to his heart.No artist in the history of mankind has efficiently tackled death,faith,religion,male-female relationship,memories,suffering etc as it was done by Ingmar Bergman.Det Sjunde inseglet is one of those eclectic films which give hope,joy and trust in human faith.The Seventh Seal has been called an existentialist classic.This is true to some extent but for Bergman it was simply an affair of reaffirming his faith in the influence of religion on ordinary mortals.His influence was so great that even death had been given a human face.
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