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I do not think it was a coincidence. I think there is a direct tie in, and more generally there is a reason why Bergman put things in his films. It is not accidental.

The scene in The Seventh Seal is a rather obvious symbol of or analogy to the Christian eucharist. The strawberries in that scene are actually served with milk, analogous to the bread and wine, or body and blood of Jesus. The knight shares the meal with the actors, stand ins for Joseph and Mary, as well as his virtually atheistic squire and the woman who accompanies him.

Wild Strawberries does contain a specific reference to strawberries. In the dream involving the remembered Sara she states there are no strawberries left late in the film, having earlier been seen picking them. The emphasis on their being wild is not accidental - are they perhaps something available to them by God's grace (since man had no role in their creation)? Or is it merely that they are part of the world's wonders and beauty, available as a sublime example of life's simple pleasures?

Turning back to The Seventh Seal I do not mean to suggest the wild strawberries there merely have a role in analogy to the Eucharist. Antonius Block also enjoys them as very much one of life's simple pleasures. This experience comes in answer to the questions that related to his search for meaning in his life, wondering if he has been wasting his time quite literally not living life as he should have. This is a shared theme with Wild Strawberries, where Isak Borg is asking himself essentially the same questions. The strawberries very much involve his memory of Sara, and her role as a lost opportunity to have lived a life of real feeling and authenticity, given his love for her, and his losing her to his brother. To have been able to share the strawberries with Sara would have been a form of communion between them.

There is more to the connection than that, but it is not at all a coincidence, you can be sure.

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