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I am really surprised with the performances in this movie, McConaughey is undeniably an amazing actor and he did a spectacular job with this movie. I also don’t like Jared Leto and even I think his performance was insanely well. The story was heartbreaking.

Life in the 1300s must’ve been hell, they really thought someone acting like a bear was the funniest shit ever. The seventh seal asks the question that every human has asked themselves, what happens after death? Objectively the scariest part about death itself. The hardest part about knowing you will dies is coming to terms that your life is about to end, and that there is no way of knowing what is on the other side. now what if you put the themes of the inescapability of death, the fear of mortality, and the silence of God, and you put it all in 1300’s sweden when the black plague is ravaging the country. You get one of the most beautiful films ever created. I’d also like to mention that the movie shows the appreciation of art, amidst the horrors and difficulties surrounding our characters, they find joy in singing and acting, beautiful stuff. Death is inevitable, it comes for everyone eventually, and look at what happens in the movie, but the story isn’t really all about the knight trying to escape death, it’s about his journey home and the people he meets along the way.  Something I love about this movie would be the setting, the visuals of medieval life are spectacular, seeing people interact with each other, watching what they find entertaining, seeing how people reacted to the things around them, the medieval art. Old art has always been really interesting to me, it seems that as life goes on art changes drastically, styles are heavy within different phases of art. In medieval art death really is a prevalent theme, and it is often seen playing chess with humans, that’s where the entire film got its premise. Human history including medieval times is so interesting, The Seventh Seal does a phenomenal job. Death isn’t really understood by humans until they reach a stage in their life where their brains are more developed, usually around five to seven years of age. When one understands death the natural reaction is to be scared of it, death is irreversible, it is final, and it is unknown what is waiting once someone dies. From an early age I have been terrified at the thought of death, I believe in God and in heaven, but nothing can be proven, and when I think of death i’m scared that there is nothing after. It’s all faith. Antonius Block is scared of death because he has no proof that God is real. Once Block realized that determining whether God is real or not is impossible, coming to terms with his own death becomes a hundred times harder. Also Antonius’ faith might be failing him because of the death around him, he’s living in a time where a big chunk of the population is dying to a plague. Definitely a brilliant movie and a must watch.

Not to sound like a performative feminist but this was really misogynistic. Well, it’s a classic but man, I don’t know if it didn’t age well or if the source material was just tasteless. I don’t know but none of the women in this movie are respected, most of them are treated like objects. It makes sense for this movie because the main characters are all in high school and their highest priority is to have sex. But apparently this was a hit that defined the teen comedy genre. I’m trying to see the good in it but, It didn’t make me laugh that much, maybe to me it wasn’t funny. I’ll give it to the movie that it was well made, but that’s about it. There was development, but I would’ve liked to see a lot more. It’s not all about sex and the movie should push that narrative a lot more. Okay some comedies don’t need to be that complex, but take *superbad* for example, *superbad* did way more for the teenage sex comedy than *American Pie* did. Oz’s story was great though, he’s the only character that fully developed.