Film: "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" (1983).
Described by Michael Palin as a film which "ranges from philosophy to history
to medicine to halibut - especially halibut", this far-reaching, very British
collection of sketches offers a confident analysis of birth, death, religion,
education, marriage, sex and war leading up to the meaning of life itself.
Directed by Terry Jones and featuring the familiar cast of Graham Chapman,
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Jones himself, it is
full of gloriously surreal comic moments. Who could forget John Cleese's sex
education lesson for bored schoolboys? Or the gluttonous Mr. Creosote
spectacularly defeated by just one more "petit wafer"? Nostalgic even at the
time, the film now seems positively iconic.
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