Film Analysis: The Seventh Seal

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The Seventh Sleep
In 1957, ancient times, an era with limited technology, “historical” days, a movie was created, “The Seventh Seal” by Ingram Bergman, is a example of how different our present mindset has changed from the dreadful era of the 50’s. I’ve always wanted to experience a classic film experience in a theatre instead of searching for them online, upon searching for one I came across the showing of “The Seventh Seal”, which frankly, I wish I hadn’t. I’m pretty sure we’ve all heard of ZzzQuil as a way of falling asleep, however I must say that “The Seventh Seal” was ten times as potent at putting me to sleep, the real challenge of the movie was to stay awake the whole duration. I personally believe that you need a special mindset
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After with all the delays in god knows what, they started the Film Series with a set of advertisement that started around 7:30pm and film ending at 9pm with a discussion afterward.
Figure 1 The donation stand with no food or beverages available. A long delay in a movie would be bearable if there were refreshments available, the lack of food and beverages at the auditorium made the experience insufferable. In the beginning of the event a raffle was held to hand out prizes, to those who donate, with most prizes had nothing to do with the movie itself except one or two prizes. With most of the prizes being given away at the raffle belonging to their sponsors for
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Upon entering the auditorium I was shocked, the people standing near the gate of the assembly hall was more than there were people throughout the auditorium itself. Although after entering, like a shot, figured out that the whole assembly hall was standing near the entrance gate, which I would estimate to be no more than the number of leaves on a trees in the middle of winter, very limited. The attendance, however shocking it was with the minimum number, was occupied by mostly people who have passed their breastfeeding days while the movie was being

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