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标题：Moments of Release
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作者：Robin Wood
期刊名称：Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism
电子版ISSN：2047-1661
出版年度：2011
期号：2
出版社：University of Warwick
摘要：It was The Seventh Seal in 1957 that established Bergman's reputation internationally. At the time, the film appeared a vividly imagined medieval fresco with contemporary over-tones. In fact, it also established a basic structure that has recurred intermittently in Bergman's films ever since. The opening of the film sets two groups in an opposition de-fined as much by poetic detail as by character: on the one hand, the Knight and Squire, outcasts on a barren beach, perpetually awake or tossing indisturbed sleep, the Knight confronted by a vision of Death; on the other, the travelling players, their caravan harmoniously integrated in a compo-sition of trees and meadows, their sleep disturbed by noth-ing but a mosquito, the clown Jof the recipient of a vision of the Virgin and Child. But Knight and Squire are them-selves opposed, the former a tormented, frustrated seeker, the latter a stoical materialist, bound to each other in per-petual, mutual resentment, never making more than transi-tory contact with the players