The Monty Python Movie, The Meaning Of Life

In this paper I will present skits from the Monty Python movie, The Meaning of Life, and discuss their relevance to our Existentialism class. This films does not tell us any particular story, but it symbolically walks us through an average person’s life as they move out of their granted view of the world via two realizations, absurdity and death. Being that the movie is not a cohesive narrative but rather a series of unrelated acts which serve to question what we can say about the nature of the human condition, I will consider some of the movie’s scenes, presenting the skit at hand through the lense of existentialist thinkers.
The first half of the film establishes what sort of things come along with being human, the things that we are burdened with as human. I will show that in the first half of the film Python parallels some ideas of Kierkegaard, Plato, Becker and Hesse.
The first skit, The miracle of birth, is divided into two parts which reflect the most common predispositions we, as humans have. In part one, [Birth in the first world] (the secular world), we see a woman rushed into a delivery room. The room like, the child to be born, starts out bare with nothing around to suggest meaningfulness beyond what happens to be present. Then the room is flooded with “More Apparatus” as an attempt by the doctors to fill up the room with really

Or as Python says, “The meaning of life is!: Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations… [or perhaps gratuitous picture of penises and useless