The Seventh Seal - Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith

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 (Twitter: lexville_.

Music used in this video:

"Nocturne in F Minor–Op. 55, No. 1 (Variation)"
By Chad Lawson
Licensed through Musicbed.

"7"
By Lex Villena
Track 7

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