The Seventh Seal - directed by Ingmar Bergman - 1957

Today in literature class we watched a serious of old films. The second old film we watch was called The Seventh Seal.
From the beginning you could tell it was religious because of it's first words relating to the bible.

The clip we watched reveals a man stranded on the island. We see that he is religious as he kneels down and clasps his hands together in prayer to God. Death has now approached him. He ask death to play chess with him; if the man wins he lives, but if death wins he dies. The black and white chessboards symbolize life and death; life being the man and death being, well, death. The man reveals that he is not "afraid of death" but his "flesh" is. The film is quite poetic, the words are crafted almost like poetry; flowing, descriptive and symbolic. There is also a comedy side to it; death being interested and skillful at chess.