The Seventh Seal

Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one's senses? Why does he hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not? What about those who neither want to nor can believe? Why can't I kill God in me? Why does He live on in me in a humiliating way - despite my wanting to evict Him from my heart? Why is He, despite all, a mocking reality I can't be rid of? - Antonius Block to Death We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god. - Antonius Block to Death Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me. Death: But He remains silent. Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there. Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone. Antonius Block: Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. Death: Most people think neither of death nor nothingness. Antonius Block: But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness. Death: That day. Antonius Block: I understand what you mean. What a visually stunning and profound take on Death. Confronting it, trying to be smart to avoid it, gaming it, risking it, trying to pry answers out of it, attempting to cheat it; all null and void. I loved the game of chess, the dialogue, the positioning of the death mask behind shots... stunning and captivating. Up there in my top 3 versions of personified Death, with Discworld and Puss In Boots 2, and absolutely too many magnificent quotes to capture on this review. Honestly a fucking 10/10 movie. That shot with the perfume engulfing the flagellants?! 10 alone. I wanted to only give it a 9 [excellent] due to the goofy and fairly misogynistic part with the blacksmith's wife, but frankly after re-looking at the quotes I think it has to be a 10, though I wish that tarnish did not exist on the film. Perfect [mostly] - 10-/10