However, most movies imported from Europe were soft-core pornography films. He had written and made a handful of movies, and gained some recognition at Cannes and in Europe. However, little was known of Bergman before its release. Perhaps Bergman’s most well-known movie, it debuted in the United States in 1958. The only problem with these first couple sentences is Bergman’s film was influential in birthing all of these now known clichés and popularizing these common metaphorical and allegorical tropes. From the obvious choice of death as a skull-like specter, playing chess with death as a sort of “gentleman’s agreement” to delay the inevitable, to the dense dialogue and religious imagery, the movie is littered with references so overused we hardly can recognize them as unique or interesting anymore. Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal is a cliché. MaJoshua Crabb review, Reviewing The Classics 0
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