What are Ingmar Bergman's main film themes?
I have always been drawn to the profound silences in life, the chasms that lie between people, and the aching question of God's absence. Mortality, of course, is a constant shadow. In my films, like *The Seventh Seal*, I confront the knight with Death itself, forcing him to reckon with his life's meaning in the face of oblivion. The human face, stark and unadorned, becomes a landscape of our inner torment and our fragile search for connection. We are all, I believe, perpetually wrestling with doubt, with the masks we wear, and the painful rituals of our relationships. Art, for me, is a desperate attempt to hold a mirror to this difficult truth.
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