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Topic	The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75
Nelson_Mandela 07/09/19 10:28:30 AM #180:	#14. The Seventh Seal https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Seventhsealposter.jpg Dir: Ingmar Bergman Genre: Fantasy, Drama Year: 1957 *SephG Superlative: The greatest fantasy movie ever made; the greatest Swedish movie ever made* The Seventh Seal is the closest cinema has ever come to capturing a medieval/Renaissance allegory--the type of art that, until this movie, had only ever really been achieved through verse and through painting. But Ingmar Bergman's mind (and eye) was able to pull off the seemingly impossible and translate that religious and spiritual experience onto screen. The Seventh Seal is a period piece that makes no pretenses about realism. The entire movie has this surreal quality to it--almost as if Max von Sydow's entire journey is really just some kind of purgatory before he moves on to his inevitable death. And that nihilistic inevitability is omnipresent throughout the film, imbuing a fatalism only matched perhaps by Melancholia 50 years later. Despite the futility of the themes, the movie itself is one of the most beautiful things ever filmed. The figures set along the gloomy Northern European backdrop almost create a painting in each frame, capped off by one of the shots that will stick with me most for the rest of my life--the creepy and climatic "Dance of Death" in the final scene. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:924447430] in The SephG ... [t:77811548]...</cite> <quote>#14. The Seventh Seal https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Seventhsealposter.jpg Dir: Ingmar Bergman Genre: Fantasy, Drama Year: 1957 SephG Superlative: The greatest fantasy movie ever made; the greatest Swedish movie ever made The Seventh Seal is the closest cinema has ever come to capturing a medieval/Renaissance allegory--the type of art that, until this movie, had only ever really been achieved through verse and through painting. But Ingmar Bergman's mind (and eye) was able to pull off the seemingly impossible and translate that religious and spiritual experience onto screen. The Seventh Seal is a period piece that makes no pretenses about realism. The entire movie has this surreal quality to it--almost as if Max von Sydow's entire journey is really just some kind of purgatory before he moves on to his inevitable death. And that nihilistic inevitability is omnipresent throughout the film, imbuing a fatalism only matched perhaps by Melancholia 50 years later. Despite the futility of the themes, the movie itself is one of the most beautiful things ever filmed. The figures set along the gloomy Northern European backdrop almost create a painting in each frame, capped off by one of the shots that will stick with me most for the rest of my life--the creepy and climatic "Dance of Death" in the final scene. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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