An actual pandemic movie set during the Black Death. It made me wonder why Christians don't think COVID-19 is punishment from God. Some thought that about AIDS. Kirk Cameron thinks that about hurricanes, but he thinks the pandemic is a hoax and that God will protect him in any case.
It's been a few years since I last watched The Seventh Seal. The people in it seem sort of modern, but then they surprise you. Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) assumes that the girl about to be burned at the stake really did talk to Satan. When they first see her, they do nothing to interfere. Later, when she's about to be burned, the squire gives some thought to rescuing her. "I thought of killing the soldiers..."The squire (Gunnar Björnstrand) is the cool one. He's an atheist, he makes some good use of his capacity for violence. But he had also been a serial rapist although he says he tired of that now.
There was more humor in it than I remembered.
Available on the Criterion Channel.
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