The Seventh Seal - Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith
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- 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.
This video is, without doubt, aesthetically indebted to the work of Lex Villena ( / lexville_ .
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"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
'would you like a Hobnob'? French and Saunders.
The former is one my favorite of philosophical quote
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.
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
Infinite consciousness, creation energy, and God that controls heaven and hell exists, and God loves. Look up 7 chakras and the 3rd eye. And look up Brahma. Look up Brahmaloka. Look at mount meru and kundalini serpents. Angels are like the ancient creation energy beings like Indra described in ancient texts. Random conciousnesses have spawned throughout the universe and exist in the spirit realm (Brahma loka) angels and demons are the souls of these random creations and souls of stars and planets. There is magical creation energy, angels are at the top dimensions of heaven that can affect reality. Watch the Russian movie Stalker to see what the creation energy beings are capable of. Hope you read this and know God as described exists.
These spirit realm beings that can understand your thoughts in any language, are connected to in religious relics like the arc of the covenant, shiva lingams and other objects.
ah yes the shiva ligma@@Aj-tu4gv
Don't stop making these man, I know there are only two videos and less views right now but this is really quality content; the success of this channel is a matter of time and not chance if you keep putting in work like this! Best of luck and faith!
Much appreciated, Asheesh! I've got some more videos planned; stay tuned.
Wow. only 550 views? this is so well-done and amazing. thanks...
thank you!
Ikrrrr
Its 57k now.. time
RIP Max von Sydow ... you'll always be remembered ... what we do in life echoes in eternity
Goddamn, you're underrated, man! This video should be recommended to more people. You're doing God's work.
Truly a great video! Not only do you give a great insight into the movie and Kierkegaards philosophy but you also produced great visuals!
Honestly,one of the best video I’ve seen on TH-cam.Great job man
Best review/essay I hace found on YT, thank you!
Simply great, thank you for this video and it's insights. I always come back to rewatch it from time to time.
Such a great channel, so glad I found it. Keep up the excellent work!
I would like to thank you deeply from my heart and mind for making this video for you have made me think!
Man, I don't know if you stopped making content but thank you so much for what you have maked yet.
The battle that wages on in the heart of humans since the dawn of time is well represented by this movie this is still one of the best piece of cinematography it's a gift that it can be watched free of cost on TH-cam
This was beautiful. Thank you!
Spectacular video! I'm looking forward to more!
Thank you! More on the way.
I discover this video in the early morning before the day starts. Thank you! ❤
Just watched this film for 1st time last night. Loving all the vids on youtube to help learn more. Great video!
fantastic script, great video editing and exposition of Kierkegaard ❤
I hope you find the time to keep making these, this video was just outstanding. I watched the movie tonight and came to TH-cam to see if anyone had a great video essay. You made it so I wasn’t disappointed.
thank you! Trying to find the time (and motivation) to finish a few I have in the works.
very good video. overall aesthetic, text, music and the theme itself. the seventh seal is my favorite movie. congratulations and good luck. god bless you
Thanks for making this video, at the moment I can't fully appreciate it cause I need to rewatch the movie so I can make my thoughts more clear, but I sure will be coming back herr to ponder over and over your observations, thanks brother.
Such an underrated channel keep up the good work mate
Short but an incredibly good video, you deserve more subs - and if you keep putting good shit like this out, I'm sure you'll get them!
Thanks kindly. Loads more video ideas that I'm trying to execute! Stay tuned!
I keep coming back to this video, it’s truly fantastic. I hope you make more in the future as a screenwriter, this is content I adore. Hope you’re doing well mate!
thank you!
Great video, the best analysis of the seventh seal I've seen so far. Most are just so shallow
Your really talented man never stop
Very well done man!
terrific video man, hope to see more
thank you!
such a great and underrated video, those 4:30 minutes felt like 1. you deserve waaay more views. just subscribed, looking forward to whatever you make after this!
Thank you, Juan! That means a lot. More videos coming soon.
Lovely, beautiful stuff!
Truly a well done video
Excellent short essay, thanks a lot!
This was so good. infinitely deep.
Excellent video. Nicely rudimentary
really well-done analysis of the movie - thank you :)
Hey man, I loved the video.
Great video!
Great job!
i've seen this film and was so moved by it without being able to say why. But now i know lol. I read fear and trembling, yet i hadn't seen the connections, you are pointing excaclty what i could feel but not see in the movie !
And this video => great writing, great editing hope to see more content :D
thank you!
Amazing video!
excellent take on a great movie
This video was superb, but it also made me envious...I wish I had made this video.
good work, keep it up!
Brother is using Lex Vilenna as background music. Well done.
Incredible summary.
Great job. Thanks
Great video, you inspired me to make my own! Thank you!! 🙂
This is an amazing video
Gabe DePaul thank you, Gabe!
That was amazing. Respect to the creator
Thank you, respect.
this is crazy good
Love this.
I relate too much with Antonius for my own good.
Excellent
Showing this video to my philosophy department. This is fantastic.
Legend! Thank you.
boyinthebadlands of course!! I hope you keep making videos!! You’re the only person on TH-cam I’ve seen who has given me goosebumps
Grant that’s a wonderful compliment, thank you. New video coming soon-ish (& plans for quite a few more videos down the road).
I love this video❤
Time to rewatch Bergman's magnum opus!!
Great video about a great movie and a great book
Brilliant.
This movie was very uplifting to me. It is a man’s goal to become childlike and innocent of heart, and only then will he be revealed the world in clear form.
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”.
True. He might have meant that it takes place on the Swedish shores facing towards Denmark, somewhere in the Öresund.
AMAZING
Absolutely superb ! Too bad that it was too short. The music setup was perfectly done!
Continue creating these magical short videos. I'll continue waiting for them.
Thanks, Maria! The feedback/encouragement is appreciated.
@@boyinthebadlands my pleasure !
Interesting how religion affects philosophy
The old theology vs philosophy question
Hey! I have a video on The Seventh Seal, which you may like 😆
Lmao basically my dissertation
Id say culture does, and religion is a major part of nearly every culture
They complement each other well
I'M ON A HOLY JOURNEY HERE IS ONE STOP APPARENTLY
Long considered one of the greatest films of all time, Bergman’s medieval drama of the soul can be difficult to watch but is impossible to forget.
Though the film's theme, the silence of God and the horror of death if there is no afterlife, is an essentially religious one, The Seventh Seal doesn't really deal with religion or God as such, but with the place of God and religion in the human heart and human society. 2:22 [Decent Films Reviews]
F**ing brilliant
Would you please provide much more similar contents.
I should have commented sooner but this video is truly a master piece in a simple yet beautifully well done manner. I first watched this when I completed one of my final essays for my high school philosophy course where I chose the film the seventh seal in regards to a philosophical relationship with Kierkegaard and sigmund freuds psychoanalysis Id,Ego,Super Ego. Applying these theories to the film. Finished with a 98 in philosophy and I absolutely loved that course. Certainley want to dive deeper into Kierkegaard. I actually cited this yt video in my essay bibliography page, because this video added to my points and gave me reassurance with new information about my research!! Thank you again and just wondering what mic did you use for this video. I am planning to start a podcast about history, philosophy, science and literature. I need a budget setup and just wondering which mic was used for this vid. Also you should definetly start a podcast if you have not done so already!!
Best regards,
Nicholas
Congrats on the course grade - I'm glad this video came in handy. I used the Rode NTG-2 which just happens to be the best mic I had lying around (it's a boom mic I've prviously used for on-set filmmaking purposes). Certainly not the best for the job but it works. Let me know if/when you start up the podcast, I'd love to check it out.
Hey, I started the podcast called HiPhiLiSci. First episode is called Mind is not dead which is about how we gain knowledge. I am leading towards creating podcast with less inter dialogue but more of a dialogue script from like a video essay style explaining video. Please ignore my mispronounciation of epistemology. I said epistemeology LOL. Next episode is about an analysis of Dante’s Divine comedy inferno!
Even though I am danish and could read Kierkegaard in native language, I fear it is a rabbit hole I would never come out of.
I am quite comfortable not knowing.
I don’t think where reason ends faith begins - they seem inextricable to me. But I think where faith really starts is where the heart begins. So many are dead spiritually in this generation and I can only suppose it is because they did not go out into this world and let their heart govern their decisions. They chose cruelty and not kindness and even now when the Truth is self evident, they still persist in choosing relentless cruelty every day, and the rolling of a stone.. 🕊❤️✝️🙏
I really like this. Question do you think Jof is Kierkagaard's Knight of Faith?
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Love your neighbor and you will be rewarded. It's an easy Way. ❤
I love you
Det sjunde inseglet as it is called in Swedish is a masterpiece.
Faith and a dollar buys you a coffee.
this was Max von Sydons breakout movie.. very great movie
You should make one for the documentary "the smashing machine". You can watch the documentary on TH-cam.
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When will you do more videos brother?
This is a bit of a nitpick but as a swede this (0:46) is a bit triggering 😂
The movie is actually set in Sweden
Nice video, wish there was a subtitle though. Some non-english speaker and deaf viewers would appreciate that.
@4:24 i think it is both those things. But like everything, there are conditions, and the conditions that which your arrive at the faith borne from a fit of passion are usually very tumultuous and damaging. Anyone I know that has found it in such a way has endured what was for them a crazy trial. But faith like said earlier in the video being acted out does make it a skill in a sense because you act it out over time. And like anything you do with repetition, you tend to improve at or fail at less often.
This story kind of abstracts that in a way, because the Knight is both having a fit of passion at death's door, and is acting out faith gradually with keen awareness of his impending mortality?
How can you possibly be so smart and also be a Christian? Faith and reason are like oil and
water - they have never mixed well.
Why would someone like Antonius Block, the knight, be afraid or unwilling to die? Heaven awaits, correct?
Good question. My answer-distinct, of course, from whatever the *right* answer may be-is that doubt is a necessary component of faith. See Hebrews 11:1 - "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." (ESV). Hence my efforts in this video to distinguish knowledge (certainly) from faith (uncertainty). So although Antonius may be instantiating Kierkegaard's 'Knight of Faith,' I don't think that his fears and anxieties are necessarily put to rest as a result. I may be wrong here, but I don't think that the strength of your confidence is synonymous with the strength of your faith.
It's also worth noting here that different psychological 'types'-that is, people of varying psychological makeups-are bound to experience religion differently. Compare existential heroes like Antonius Block with the archetypal 'holy fools' like Myshkin from Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Participating in the realm of the Religious is difficult for the one and easy for the other; and yet it is accessible to both (and to all). If it weren't for the struggle involved, Christianity might not be compelling enough for Antonius to pay it any mind in the first place. And Myshkin might be perplexed by the seemingly unnecessary internal struggle Antonius finds himself in the midst of. Myshkin, compared with Antonius, might also be willing to embrace death (and thus the presumed afterlife) without giving it much thought. Again, psychologically speaking, religion is ‘easier’-and “easier” is a word we must be careful to use here; easier by what standards? “Simpler” is perhaps a better word to use-to some than others, regardless of its truth, validity, etc. For more information on this distinction, check out William James's The Variety of Religious Experience.
So, to answer your question, Antonius is afraid to die-despite his "movement of faith"-because faith doesn't necessarily alleviate one's fear of death. After all, faith isn't incidental to our physical and psychological impulses; it is instead the ideal at which all of our physical and psychological impulses (which include fears, sufferings, joys and everything in between) must be aimed.
A shame you didnt make more vids
Subbed. Moar.
0:47 -- The movie takes place in Sweden, not Denmark.
Well, that’s where I part with Kierkegaard. I’m not a Protestant. I think that not only do Christianity benefit from Faith and Reason, but all religions.
I watched this move for the first time the other day. I don't know, I didn't care for this movie very much.
Awesome and beautifully done video. But this is set in Sweden, not Denmark. Do you want to start a war? 😂
The film, conceived during a crisis of faith Bergman was experiencing at the time, deals heavily with themes relating to religious doubt and loss of faith. Bergman channelled his own feelings through the principle character of Antonius Block, a knight caught between the twin aggressors of war and plague, as he returns from the crusades to a homeland fraught with despair.
How Ingmar Bergman masterpiece 'The Seventh Seal' teaches us to accept death By Jude Leese [Far Out Magazine]
The Seventh Seal is Bergman's famous religious allegory about a Knight who faces Death and tries to outwit him. It's a masterfully crafted philosophical, existential and experimental film that paved the way for so many other films of its kind. 'The Seventh Seal' is universally regarded as a masterpiece. 0:07 [IMDb; Medium]
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1500 yrs ago the Hindu Sages wrote book of Upanishads where the boy Nachiketa asks Yama, the God of Death for the questions of knowledge about life and death . And Yama , the god of death, replies to it saying that these questions have not been known/answered even by the Gods themselves. But as Nachiketa persists, the God of death begans his discourse.
You’re talking about the apophatic tradition.
Interesting. I don't know much about it vis a vis kataphatic. I'll have to look into this distinction more.
Sweden.. not Denmark.
Kierkegaard believed that everyone would die but also that everyone had an immortal self, or soul, that would go on forever. Boredom and anxiety can be alleviated in various ways, but the only way to escape despair is to have total faith in God. 1:02 [SparkNotes]
Don't take this the wrong way, but I would totally $#%@ *%^ in a $!#$ with a %%$. Damn that was good- subscribed. Keep making videos, kid.
One thing I don't get is, if Death is personified, then Antonius has tangible proof of something that is beyond the natural which in this case that of a spirit or some spiritual embodiment of death itself, so why then can't Antonius realize that the same must be true of God even though he hasn't been able to see him yet? If there is a spiritual, personified equivalent to death, then how hard can it be then to believe in some spiritual, personification of the Creator?
Assuming that this was not an accident, then could the movie be making the argument that even if there was something that could be considered as proof of God's existence presented before the very eyes of a person, even if only circumstantial as it were, that we are too rational to even believe it anyway? It would be a relevant thing to consider in the topic of reason vs faith, I believe.
But if it was an accident, then it sort of renders the whole movie pointless, and Antonius' internal struggle moot. It's like if I struggled to believe in God, and then one day I saw the ghost of my dead relative, and yet still denied the existence of God. Ghosts themselves would be the very proof that there is more out there like an afterlife, so at the very least I think I would have no more room to doubt the possibility of a life after death. And if I get as far as that, then it's not inconceivable to think that there might be something like a heaven, and where there is a heaven, then there MIGHT be something LIKE God living in it.
In other words, by seeing a ghost or Death itself personified, you are closer to proving that God exists than proving he doesn't exist, hence it weakens the main characters internal struggle with his own faith because he should believe since the presence of Death itself opens up the possibility to God's existence.
Maybe the realm inhabited by Death and the realm inhabited by God are two different things, and one doesn't imply the existence of the other? That's the only way this whole thing works, but then if souls are real and that's what Death is there to take, then those souls must come from somewhere. If there are no souls, then why is Death there to begin with? Death says "come with me," which begs the questions, to what place and "what" is he taking?
Great response.
I believe that the personification of death is meant to be interacted with purely symbolically. Although the whole film is technically fictitious, it's not actually the case that, in the 'real' world of Antonius Block-the world of the film-death is a walking, talking person. Death is personified for our sake - the viewer's sake. So that we might understand Antonius' struggle.
The personification of death is just that: a personification; a literary tool used in order to convey Antonius' complex relationship with real-life death.
It's really as you say in your second paragraph: Antonius is literally 'dealing with' death in the form of the real-life plague. He's come face-to-face with constant death and suffering (and his own mortality): how will he respond? Does so much suffering and death prove God's existence? Disprove His existence? How will Antonius respond to 'meeting' near-certain death 'face-to-face'? The portrayal of death as a human being is meant to help us, the viewers, understand Antonius' growing relationship with real-life death brought about by the very real plague.
@@boyinthebadlands Yes, I agree. He is meant to be a symbolic representation only. It just felt for a moment that the illusion of that was broken somewhat when he was seen by everyone else in the room after he entered, in that scene near the end of the film. He felt more "real" right then.
But yes. I agree, he is above all a symbolic figure only.
@@josecasillas4081 Fair point! I think the idea there is that death has come to take them all at that point - i.e., they are all about to die.
Faith is interesting, but how does one choose, from an infinity of options, what to believe? And what people believe is almost 100% determined by their cultural context, and thus seems an unlikely path to universal truth.
Religion is not supposed to be about truth. Unfortunately that's what Christianity aims toward, it relies on certain historic facts to be true. Religion is supposed to be about living a good life, being a good person and understanding your place in the world.