
1.FICHA
TECHNICAL TITLE: The Seventh Seal
ORIGINAL TITLE: Det sjunde inseglet
YEAR: 1956 PRODUCER
: Svensk Filmindustri. Sweden.
Producer: Allan Ekelund
DIRECTOR: Ingmar Bergman
PERFORMERS: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max Von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Gill, Maud Hansson
Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
MUSIC: Erik Nordgren
PHOTOGRAPHY: Gunnar Fischer (B / N)
ASSEMBLY: Lennart Wallén
GENRE: Drama
DURATION: 92 min
2.SINOPSIS
Sweden, XIV century. The Black Death ravaged Europe. The Swedish knight Antonius Block and his loyal squire return home, after ten years of fruitless fighting in the Crusades to the Holy Land. Returns as a man tormented and plagued by doubts, and Death has claimed it. With hoping to get some knowledge before his death, the knight challenges Death to a game of chess. Man seeks answers to key questions of life, death and the existence of God during a game of chess. Unanimously hailed as one of the great masterpieces of Bergman.
3. WHY "The Seventh Seal" IS A FILM CAREER. NOTES FOR THE ENTERTAINER.
We are in a movie that is pure art. However for those not accustomed to classic cinema may seem a bit slow. For this we should make a good motivation to start to give you some key points or guidance. What
see in this classic work of Ingmar Bergman is not only a great reflection on death and therefore of life. The black plague that is killing thousands of people in medieval Europe provokes different reactions, different poses. However there is one word pervasive throughout the film, the fear. In general, all are frightened by what is sensed as the end, the apocalypse of the world and death that haunts everyone equally and who no one escapes. The same director made this presentation of his work: "This film is not intended as a realistic picture of Sweden in the Middle Ages. It is an attempt of modern poetry, which reflects the life experiences of a modern man in a way that is very loosely medieval events. In the Middle Ages people lived in fear of the plague. Today they live in fear of the atomic bomb. The Seventh Seal is an allegory with a very simple man, the eternal search for God and death as the only certainty. "
Antonius Block is a distressed gentleman whom death has been awarded a prologue while playing a game of chess. During this extra time to solve their existential questions and find meaning in life, looking to do something important, a good deed that inner peace. Le anguish not knowing what lies beyond death, God is a pure invention of the fear of man. Feels God within himself, but wants to come to him by the mere reasoning and not by faith: "I understand, not believe." It is worth stopping at the scene of the "confession" made in a church where we can actually see your troubled spirit.
His squire John is a buffoon "who laughs at death, curse of God and is indifferent to the whole world." His attitude is that the mere present with no horizon of transcendence in life. For him death is the end, so the reflections mocks his master and says openly: "You will not find anyone to listen to your prayers." However with the imminent death of the girl rebels ordered by this nonsense of life.
"The gentleman and his squire are two opposing characters. We say that contrast and complement. The gentleman is concerned about finding God, to know what is behind the death, wants to be prepared for that moment, on the contrary, his squire, is more earthy, wants to live life and enjoy "(taken from http://www .cinefania.com/movie/200506 /).
Joseph, Mary and Michael is a family that is part of a small company of comedians and singers. Go a world tormented by fever and fear to entertain those people who have no interest in his show. Joseph has a secret he shares with his wife, is able to have visions and apparitions. Mary for her part does not take seriously many times but loves and accepts you as is. Many of the criticisms I have consulted almost no notice of this family that has, from my point of view, the great reason to hope for "The Seventh Seal."
And then there's the death that does its job, which gives no prologue and no one who escapes. Or so she thinks. Throughout the various meetings he has with the gentleman to continue their departure will discover in it an evolution, a change. First it is lively, with no major worries or troubles. What is this? The gentleman just enjoy the simple things: a group of friends sitting in the field, strawberries, a bowl of fresh milk, a happy child ... Enjoy a daily occurrence giving a dimension of transcendence ("I will never forget this day") makes you see life differently.
At another point he noted the death really changed, just the end of the game. The gentleman feels at peace because she made the last good deed: to distract the death to the family of Michael to escape. "The minstrel, Joseph and his wife, Mary, with her beautiful baby are the real winners. They will not die (for now). The knight saves. It's that little gesture that he elevates and redeems and no participation in the Crusade. Although no faith, and wants it, as the San Miguel Bueno de Unamuno, Anton does this small act of friendship distracted to death for the three flee and be saved. Anton knows that it leads to death and that their game of chess is not just a useless trick. But save those three beings full of purity is its particular action, which will save him, finally. Which will make you feel that your life has had a purpose, far from death and destruction of his crusade, away from the coldness and loneliness of being away from home "(from http://arteyliteratura.blogia.com/ 2007/111401-sesiones-dobles.-segunda-sesion-el-septimo-sello-de-ingmar-bergman.php)
And why Miguel escapes death? Precisely because of their views. He saw death when others only see it at the last moment of his life. His eyes were transcendent beyond warned material. But not only that. I think that we should not overlook the role played by his family. The other characters are somewhat broken family, but in the relationship of Joseph and Mary ("names chosen at random?) Discovered a tender and sincere love, a love which has also conceived a child. Is not that child the antidote against death? Also worth considering is a family of minstrels and troubadours, crazy people, funny, poetic. While yields Fair and leaves the stage because of the difficulties, they continue to do their part.
Some say that from his experience Lutheran, Bergman has two dimensions of life in a way limited to: the reason the gentleman in front of magical faith of Joseph. You have to really consider whether faith and reason have to be separated in life.
not be overlooked that being a black and white film director plays nicely with contrasts. It would be nice to draw attention to certain levels: the gentleman in black and white minstrels.
The Seventh Seal is thus a great movie that helps us reflect on the meaning of life, the presence of God, faith, death and how we stand at all. They are universal themes that we have all ever thought that shape our experience and vocation. "Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed in his usual theatrical style, a gloomy book full of philosophy, theology and critical thinking against the existential dilemma posed by the end of our lives, a moment of reflection and analysis against what was done or not was alive, and ultimately, best forgotten, in order not to suffer from nostalgia when you get to the only security that each person has in this life, soon each and every one of us has to die "( taken from The gadfly. http://www.alohacriticon.com/elcriticon/article1126.html) propose
also two articles in pdf format, which I find interesting and complementary:
- http://www.profes.net/rep_documentos/PDS_Religi% C3% B3n/PD2B% 20of% 20clase 20Cine%.% 20S% C3% A9ptimo_sello.PDF: is an interdisciplinary didactic
- http://es.geocities.com/jlpalacios_a/Arte/7sello_memorandum.pdf: a study of some scenes. Suggestive.
4.material FOR FILM WORK
4.1.Ver and analyze
- What the film leaves you feeling after seeing it?
- On what would have us think the director Ingmar Bergman?
-Describe each of the three characters and its fundamental stance on the death: Antonius Block, his squire and Joseph.
- What image presents Bergman's death? Are you convinced?
- What do you suggest the idea of \u200b\u200bplaying a game of chess with death?
- Antonius Block Get answers to your questions?
- What does the history that the film is in black and white? How Bergman plays with contrasts?
4.2.Nos challenges
- What are the fears of society? What about yours?
"When you think about death, what feelings do you have?
- What do you bring the movie to understand or face death?
- Which of the characters you most identify? Why?
- What for you death? What does your faith when you think about death? "If death
gave you a prologue, what would you do? "If you come
death now, would you be happy with the life you have lived? What things do you regret?
- What do you move or animate the film?
4.3.Oramos
-known singing group and appropriate to the subject.
-PSALM IN SEARCH OF THE MEANING OF LIFE
started out as if from a dream, so I'm sorry, Lord Jesus.
begin to taste the dawn of a new dawn, and something like peace after the storm.
A rainbow is open about my life in search and now I know that after the storm comes the calm.
Lord Jesus, Lord of calmness and serenity, come with me on this new road opening.
I want Lord put in my eyes.
I want to open the eyes of your heart and with 'new eyes to see' look at the light and look for the goodness and beauty, truth and love in my heart hidden and silent.
I, Lord, build my life from life.
I raise my flight from a responsible freedom.
truth I want to make my way from the truth.
I, Lord, to live love and service from Love
I need you, You are the answer to my search.
Lord Jesus, I want a meaning for my life, I want to grow
looking for reasons for my existence;
find the ideal, the standard model of being human.
I, Lord Jesus, guide my life, give direction;
know the reason of my home, where I come.
I want the river of my life has its source in you.
I know the reason for what you do in life
know if my life worth living.
I want the meaning of my life be you. I know where
way to know which is the destination and the goal of my life.
I want you, Christ the Lord, you be the end of my road.
Lord Jesus, I want a life support from outside. I do not want crutches
not let me go away.
not want media that does not bear with my freedom. I do not want patches
my way, or masks to my problems.
hands I do not push me or give rope to my failure.
not want to stay in the skin of things while my heart is starving.
not want to opt for death, destruction, things that are just, by the smoke of straw.
not want to live on the surface, from the skin.
life I will not be empty, wasted life.
Lord Jesus I live strong, and from within!.
Lord Jesus, I ask you strength to choose.
Force to choose as a person, man.
Force to choose a sturdy faith in you
to opt for the community in which they live.
Force to choose a life plan;
to opt for those in need of help.
Force to choose a life without end;
to choose and live always determined to start anew.
Lord Jesus, open my eyes to the light of your truth.
Open my eyes to the human heart that transcends;
to the values \u200b\u200bof your kingdom.
Open my eyes to the goodness and tenderness, forgiveness, justice, brotherhood, truth, the purity and simplicity.
Lord Jesus, open my eyes to the values \u200b\u200bthat are not finished.
Lord Jesus, open my eyes beyond your death: a light and freedom of your Resurrection.
You, Lord Jesus, you're here in my new path.
You, Lord Jesus, you are here and offer me your life project.
I tell you:
are the answer to my question;
're the reason my reasons.
I tell you:
are the ideal of man I want;
you the project that I assume.
I tell you:
are the Person and the program of my life;
you the meaning of my life.
(Reread the text you personally and echoed the phrases that have touched our hearts)
Word
-Mt 27, 45-56
-order thinking: Life can only be understood looking back, can only be lived more looking ahead (S. Kierkegaard)
-ASPIRATIONS OF ETERNAL LIFE
live without living in me, and as high life
hope I die of not dying.
Vivo and out of me,
after I die of love because I live in
Lord
I wanted to herself when her heart
di
put it this sign,
I die of not dying.
This divine prison
I love to live, God has
my captive, and free my heart
;
and causes me such a passion to see God
my prisoner, I die
not dying.
Oh, how long is this life!
What drives these deportations!
This prison, these irons
in which the soul is stuck! Just wait for the output
hurts me so fierce,
I die of not dying.
Oh, what a life so bitter
do not enjoy the Lord!
Because if love is sweet,
hope it is not long;
quíteme God is loading
heavier than steel,
I die of not dying.
Only
confidence that I live to die, because dying to live
assures me my hope
death do to live is reached,
not come late, I wait,
I die of not dying. Look
love is strong;
life will not be disturbed, you only look
subtraction,
to win, to lose;
come on sweet death, dying
light comes
I die of not dying. That life
above,
which is the true life until this life
die
not enjoy being alive:
death not be my elusive;
dying alive first
I die of not dying. Life
what I can I give my
God lives in me,
if not lose you,
to deserve win?
I dying to reach you,
because both my beloved love,
I die of not dying.
(Santa Teresa de Jesus)