When Does “Monty Python's The Meaning of Life” (1983) Take Place?
"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" is an absurdist comedy film musical written by Graham Chapman with John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin and released March 31st, 1983.
It takes place in the year:
We know this because the first line in the short film prologue “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”, spoken by an omniscient narrator, is “In the bleak days of 1983, as England languished…”. Though the majority of the film is a series of vignettes that are only thematically connected, the setting of the prologue returns in the main film.
1983 AD
We know this because the first line in the short film prologue “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”, spoken by an omniscient narrator, is “In the bleak days of 1983, as England languished…”. Though the majority of the film is a series of vignettes that are only thematically connected, the setting of the prologue returns in the main film.
The film’s two segments that clearly take place previous to 1983 AD can be treated as flashbacks.
Or one could always throw up one’s hands and accept that, in the absurd world in which we live, life and time both have no meaning and this could take place at any time.
