Tag: Ethics

• The Nameless God: Ingmar Bergman’s Mythical Tale “The Virgin Spring”

  

    Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is an adaptation of a thirteen century Swedish ballad. Christanity became a state religion in Sweden in the twelfth century, while the process of Christianization of Sweden began roughly in the ninth century. This means that the tale we witness on the screen, portrays an age in which Christianity…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  January 24, 2020

  Cinema of the World, European cinema, Great Swedish Directors, Ingmar Bergman, Swedish cinema

  Christianity, Cinematography, Essay, Ethics, Ideas, Movies, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Writing

• Never Let Me Go (2010) – Path to Completion

  

    Title card: The breakthrough in medical science came in 1952. Doctors could now cure the previously incurable. By 1967, life expectancy passed 100 years. Never Let Me Go is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro; the film describes the dystopian reality which takes place more than 50 years before the film was made.…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  September 19, 2018

  American cinema, British cinema, Commonwealth cinema

  Art, Ethics, Existentialism, Fascism, Humanity, Kazuo Ishiguro, Life, Love, Moral Theory, Morality, Mortality, Philosophy, Sexuality, Soul, Spirituality