Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal

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Just like how the weather may changes between each season of the year, so are the people and traditions through decades and centuries. Each individual might change over time or centuries. In fact, each century is unique from the other one and each century is special about something; for instance, fashion may changes, people’s way of thinking may changes, and even film productions may changes. Everything changes through out the years depending on the “trend”. Only the successful and the smart, just like Ingmar Bergman, who is the director of “The Seventh Seal” movie, able to make such a movie that people in the past and the present still relate to the events of the movie. For sure, there would be some scenes in the movie that is not as relatable …show more content…
It does not matter if it’s a male or a female, old or young, poor or rich, black or white, because the purpose for the movie is to awake everyone for his or her eternal life and to realize how death can always be around. Also, everybody should always be ready as people should know that everyone is rewarded or punished upon his or her deeds. Most importantly, everyone should know that everyone gets a chance to change and God alway forgives. No matter what, God can handle any problem and even “death”. Consequently, death would not win and God will save everyone with His coming and this would be the end of the world with his second …show more content…
In fact, it would be combined with the simple nature of the past and the clothes, but with the modern way of talking and acting. The setting of the movie was calming and exciting. In fact, the combination of the seashore and the camping and also the forest made the movie realistic and simple. The rebooted movie should also be in the same setting as the old movie. Also, the original movie was black and white and it perfectly fits the theme of the movie, but for the connivence of the twenty first century human beings, the movie would be combined with colors and black and white. In fact, in the “death” scenes the light would be pale and dimmed. And in the other scenes the light would be
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