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Pretty much made on George Harrison’s dime and considered, even if apocryphally, by the legendary comedy troupe to be their best film ,got banned by a lot of countries at the butt-end of the ’70s. As a Christ story, the telling of how squealy mama’s boy Brian mistakenly finds himself as one of many messiah figures rising in Judea under the shadow of Roman occupation , Monty Python’s follow-up tomay be the most political film of its ilk.
Of course,isn’t the first film about Jesus to focus on the human side of the so-called savior—Martin Scorsese’s take popularly did so less than a decade later—but it feels like the first to leverage human weakness against the absurdity of the Divine’s expectations. Steeped in satire fixing on everything from, and buttressed by as many iconic lines as there are crucifixes holding up the film’s frames , the film explores Jesus’s life by obsessing over the context around it.
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