Film: The Seventh Seal

I did this one backwards, kind of.  I read Roger Ebert's review after I watched the movie and before writing this.

This film I heard two conflicting accounts of.  One was that it was classic, and another that it was a sleep maker. 

Well, the first half does start slowly, and the scenes are bland, the dialog sparse.  The setting isn't quite developed.  It was only after reading a review of the film that I realized the plague was real rather than a metaphor.

I did watch this in several parts, maybe it was just inattention.  I think death is an interesting character.  I don't understand the Christian religion and really don't understand what they are referring to most of the time.  But I can see the humanity in it.  Well, what is the point of life?

Dance and be in love, according to lenny Kravitz. 

There's a witch to be burned at the stake, it all seemed a bit disjointed.

What was it Really like to live in a village as the plague swept through.  Were people stealing? Running around screaming while dying? Trying to get god to spare them?

Well, were there really strawberries to pick on the road next to the ocean. 

I liked this film a lot but I don't think this is what people had in mind when they told me about it.

But yes, I can see how people could obsess over this film and write a lot of stuff, watch it again and again, break down the script.  It is a film for dissection.  I don't know if watching it is really the aim.

Ebert said it was just like a play, and it shows.  It seems like the scenes cut around and there are a lot of solo speech type dialogs.

Well, I might write more later.