The Seventh Seal - Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith

With Antonius Block, Bergman has crafted a near-perfect existential hero. Using a (hyper-summarized) Kierkegaardian framework, I suggest that Antonius Block exemplifies how a person ought to approach faith in a world increasingly devoid of God.

Music used in this video:

"Nocturne in F Minor–Op. 55, No. 1 (Variation)"
By Chad Lawson
Licensed through Musicbed.

"7"
By Lex Villena

[Gurci]

"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

[AmericanAwesome]

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

[asheeshmoosapeta]

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[HopefulOptimist]

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.

[albertcamus]

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[babulabacha]

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

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[bucksfan]

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[Tripperchris]

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”.

[cyberangel]

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[danielmatino]

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