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Why is the whole movie absurd ? The whole movie is absurd because it just makes fun of everything and it doesn't really take anything serious at all . There's no meaning to the movie . It makes fun of old people and the plague that killed thousands of people and also of chivalry and the knights . I thought it was funny when the bunny was killing all of the knights , they are supposed to be brave and able to fight but instead they ran away from a little bunny .
In the movie all the actions of the knights and king Arthur were absurd. They were all clumsy and scared to fight , and king arthur backed out of fights . In reality king arthur and his knights are really brave and not scared to take on any task . Chivalry was a big deal in the middle

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