Movie Substrate · Film
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
★ 7.2 · 579 ratings on TMDB
If the Motion Picture Industry dies… Monty Python killed it!
A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
DirectorIan MacNaughton
GenresComedy
The emergence reading
And Now for Something Completely Different keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing law, bureaucracy, authority, absurdity.
zero-distanceGBlawbureaucracyauthorityabsurdity
Same rung, same subject
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The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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Dark Star (1974)E8/E9 · absurdity, bureaucracy
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