review by Sam Powell
After Hours 1985
Watched Aug 19, 2012
Sam Powell’s review:
Martin Scorsese's impressive, yet unusual paranoia-filled comedy follows the absurd journey of Paul Hackett, (Griffin Dunne) whom attempts to make his way home after spontaneously meeting a girl in SoHo.
Stepping away from the crime/thriller genre that has earned the renowned director so much acclaim, Scorsese perfectly encapsulates the feel of a nightmarish lucid dream without forcing special effect laden surreal visions upon the audience. Instead the natural exhibition of the narrative makes the darkly humorous adventure all the more harrowing.
Top review pal, straight onto my watchlist.
Cheers mate. Well worth a watch. It's got a cult status for a reason in my eyes, though was generally poorly received by audience upon release apparently.
I enjoy this film a lot, good review, waiting for a criteron blu-ray for this or a simple blu-ray
Thanks Javier, much appreciated. I really need to get myself a proper blu-ray player and some blu-rays. I've got a player in my laptop, but it would be nice to have a proper one. Only film I've watched in blu-ray is The Tree Of Life, jeez that was beautiful.
I was reading an interview with Scorsese the other day where the interviewer kept trying to ascribe all sorts of symbolism and meaning to this movie. Scorsese said something along the lines of "I guess that might be there subconsciously but there's really no reason to think about anything while watching After Hours" (that is terrible paraphrasing off the top of my head). It made me love this movie (which was already in my top 50) even more.
Hahaha I love that! So often pretentious shites trying to find deeper meaning in the content than what was ever intended, Scorsese has the ultimate put down by basically saying 'just watch the f**king movie'. It's a brilliant movie this, doubt it'll be in my top 50 personally though.