Summer Cinema — Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

From the mir­a­cle of birth to death, and every­thing in between, the hilar­i­ous British Mon­ty Python troupe attempts to shed light on the sig­nif­i­cance of exis­tence, and the per­pet­u­al­ly unan­swered ques­tions that tor­ment us all. Through a sev­en-part series of skits, fun­da­men­tal parts of our lives such as organ­ised reli­gion, sex edu­ca­tion, phi­los­o­phy, accoun­tan­cy, con­tra­cep­tion, and the joys of hav­ing a penis, all get the unapolo­getic Pythonesque treat­ment. How­ev­er, as the boys leave no stone unturned to unearth one’s pur­pose in this mor­tal world, a puz­zling and pen­e­trat­ing­ly meta­phys­i­cal ques­tion remains. In the end, what is the mean­ing of life?