Maybe he was looking for a sense of life? Empathy, self-sacrifice, enjoying the little things in life a day by day, taking nothing for granted... Finding happiness in the tiny moments with those who are close to you. Love... All in all... This is just my interpretation. I think the family's way of living even amongst the deadliest of plagues is the perfect illustration of that. This is a timeless, iconic movie. Thank you for reacting to it.
Good read. Certainly as valid as my own. I'm sure its some combination. Bergman was such an immense talent that I needed to introduce my dad to his work. Thanks for watching.
Absolutely love your dad. God bless him. On another point: Nils Poppe, who plays the jester Jof, had pretty much only done very light-weight comedy roles for a couple of decades before this. It was a really brave casting by Bergman, which took the critics by surprise, but it turned out very successful.
Comedians (or comedy actors) can make really great actors. There is a level of commitment they put forth that really can translate well. I had no idea about Nils Poppe. Thanks for the heads up.
Love this movie! :D The knight was definitely distracting Death at the end, so that the family could get away, hence giving him a 'purpose', like he said when confessing in the church.
The motif with the knight playing chess with death comes directly from a mural painting in a medieval church in sweden. Bergman saw it and took it as inspiration for this film. The artist's name is actually known: Alberus Pictor (latin for "Albert painter") he was commissioned to paint murals in churches all over scandinavia and northern Germany, and dozens of these church paintings still exist. (Wich in pretty amazing, considering the lutheran church demanded all such art be destroyed.) I think Bergman paid his respect to Albertus Pictor by including the charachter of the painter in this film. The painter says he wants to remind people that they are going to die. This is a common concept within the catholic church, called a "memento mori" To the question of wether nordic people took part in the crusades, the answer is yes, but the numbers pale in comparison to those from western and central europe. The nordic countries had become all catholic christian at about year 1000, and the film is set during the black death, wich was in the mid 1300's. At that point, Sweden was fully incorporated in the catholic world and had fully developed teade networks with europe. I assume you mean the famous crusades to the holy land (wich is what is alluded to in the film). However, Swedish knights and clergy also went on crusades, sanctioned by the holy see, into Finland and the baltics, who were largely still pagan at this point in time.
Maybe he was looking for a sense of life? Empathy, self-sacrifice, enjoying the little things in life a day by day, taking nothing for granted... Finding happiness in the tiny moments with those who are close to you. Love... All in all... This is just my interpretation. I think the family's way of living even amongst the deadliest of plagues is the perfect illustration of that.
This is a timeless, iconic movie. Thank you for reacting to it.
Good read. Certainly as valid as my own. I'm sure its some combination. Bergman was such an immense talent that I needed to introduce my dad to his work.
Thanks for watching.
17:05 it was also the trees time to die.
Absolutely love your dad. God bless him.
On another point: Nils Poppe, who plays the jester Jof, had pretty much only done very light-weight comedy roles for a couple of decades before this. It was a really brave casting by Bergman, which took the critics by surprise, but it turned out very successful.
Comedians (or comedy actors) can make really great actors. There is a level of commitment they put forth that really can translate well.
I had no idea about Nils Poppe. Thanks for the heads up.
Love this movie! :D
The knight was definitely distracting Death at the end, so that the family could get away, hence giving him a 'purpose', like he said when confessing in the church.
The motif with the knight playing chess with death comes directly from a mural painting in a medieval church in sweden. Bergman saw it and took it as inspiration for this film. The artist's name is actually known: Alberus Pictor (latin for "Albert painter") he was commissioned to paint murals in churches all over scandinavia and northern Germany, and dozens of these church paintings still exist. (Wich in pretty amazing, considering the lutheran church demanded all such art be destroyed.)
I think Bergman paid his respect to Albertus Pictor by including the charachter of the painter in this film. The painter says he wants to remind people that they are going to die. This is a common concept within the catholic church, called a "memento mori"
To the question of wether nordic people took part in the crusades, the answer is yes, but the numbers pale in comparison to those from western and central europe. The nordic countries had become all catholic christian at about year 1000, and the film is set during the black death, wich was in the mid 1300's. At that point, Sweden was fully incorporated in the catholic world and had fully developed teade networks with europe.
I assume you mean the famous crusades to the holy land (wich is what is alluded to in the film).
However, Swedish knights and clergy also went on crusades, sanctioned by the holy see, into Finland and the baltics, who were largely still pagan at this point in time.
I looked it up afterwards and saw that there were specific Swedish Crusades. An interesting thing I hadn't know.
Not accusing but how is possibile that he didn't saw the most famous and iconic movies in history?
He never watched anything. This is one of the less surprising films he hasn`t seen, to be honest. Check back to our earlier videos to see some more.
@@wewatchwithchadyou don't understand, i see ALL your videos. This is one of my favorite channel
@emsick9244 oh thanks. That's really cool. From my perspective, it's weirder that he hadn't seen Jaws or Airplane. But he has now. Seventh Seal too