نمی دونم چرا با شنیدن این خبر، بی اختیار یاد فیلم "مهر هفتم" برگمان افتادم که شوالیه برگشته از جنگهای صلیبی "آنتونیوس" برای مدتی با فرشته مرگ شطنرج بازی می کنه، برای زمان خریدن در جستجوی معنایی برای زندگی و مرگ و همچنین وجود خدا
"ایمان داشتن کار مشکلی است مثل اینه تو تاریکی کسی رو دوست داشته باشی و اون هیچوقت ظاهر نشه، هرقدر هم که بلند صداش کنی"
Antonius Block: Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.
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Antonius Block: Who are you?
Death: I am Death.
Antonius Block: Have you come for me?
Death: I have long walked by your side.
Antonius Block: So I have noticed.
Death: Are you ready?
Antonius Block: My body is ready, but I am not.
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Antonius Block: Wait a moment.
Death: You all say that. But I grant no reprieves.
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[Antonius Block lets Death choose which chess pieces to play]
Antonius Block: You drew black.
Death: Appropriate, don't you think?
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Antonius Block: Have you met the devil? I want to meet him too.
Witch: Why do you want to do that?
Antonius Block: I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone.
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Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.
Death: But He remains silent.
Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.
Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone.
Antonius Block: Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.
Death: Most people think neither of death nor nothingness.
Antonius Block: But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness.
Death: That day.
Antonius Block: I understand what you mean.