Symbolic of his struggle with reality.

I watched Life of Brian for the first time in a couple of decades. Still as antically amusing as ever. In fact, it ages pretty well. At a distance, past the squalls of whether it was blasphemous, it can be taken more at face value.

I did not, in 1979, realize that I was watching a pre-documentary. A report in 1979, masked as a humorous skit set in Roman Judea, of dialog that would only actually emerge in the developed world in 2019.


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Could the Pythons have ever anticipated that their absurd humor would one day become an article of faith for some?