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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

★ 7.3 · 2,092 ratings on TMDB

It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life poster★ 7.3

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, mortality, authority, consumerism, prejudice.

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