The story takes place in the middle of the 14th century, anthony Othony. Knight Bullock and his attendant Jens had just returned from the Crusades. He had only finished praying on the beach when he met the God of Death, who had come to him, and he played a game of chess with death in the hope of delaying death. As he walked along the beach, he saw the body of a sitting man who had died of the Black Death, and then passed a carriage with a group of street performers, including Joff, his wife Mia, the regimental commander Skett, and their baby Michael. Jov saw some visions: on that day, the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus appeared before him. Brock and his attendants arrive at a village and stop in front of a church, when they see a painter's dance of death and tell him about his unfortunate adventures in the Holy Land. The knight confesses to a monk, confesses his thirst for knowledge, and reveals that he has played chess with death, hoping that the leaked secret will allow him to escape the disaster, but under the monk's robe, he finds his god of death.
The rather painterly stylistic representation contrasts the values that continue to develop in the film: heaven and earth, darkness and light, the movements of the living and the stillness, sound and silence of the dead.
The next shot depicts the knights and minions waking up. When the knight gets up and walks out of the picture from the left, this section ends with a very wonderful position of the camera; The chess piece in the foreground is shot in a reverse, random (left and right) panorama, with the rocks in the sea as the background view. The entire passage describes the movements of the two silent protagonists, and most of the sounds are the sound of waves. The shot is quite far away, with the coast and pebble beaches entering together, the waves lapping against the shore, and the sky and clouds occupy a third of the upper end of the image. The shots are independent because they are close to the faces of the two characters. The shot is very dramatic———— it closely captures the upper body and face of the praying knight, his face expressionless, his eyes still, and the strong light that shoots from the sky shines on the right side of his face and blonde hair.
The respective attitudes of the knight and the attendant contrast from the following three points: the solemn simplicity of the knight and the aristocratic demeanor contrast with the arrogance of the attendant, who turns his head and continues to sleep; The knight gazes at the sky outside the frame, the attendant facing the ground; describes the scene of the religious ceremony; the knight bathes in the sea and kneels on the beach in prayer.
Facing the entire dark cliff, the chessboard presents a very bright visual contrast. After the panorama moves to the right and is superimposed, death appears silently, and its existence seems to be taken for granted. In fact, when the knight prayed, the tension in his eyes foresaw the appearance of the god of death.