I saw some anon make a thread about this a couple weeks ago so thought I'd give it a watch. Very good film maybe bordering on top 5 Scorcese films I've watched but at the same time what the fuck was that? I thought it was some purgatory/afterlife thing similar to Jacobs Ladder but the ending with him just going to the computer then that's it? I don't want to look up some YouTube essay/ending explained because I always think your own perspective on a film is the best interpretation but did I miss something?

pointless and meandering nonsense, not even a good peak into 80s NY, just silly characters in outlandish situations

>>212946822 (OP)
Not even going to recommend you more films because After Hours is terrible and your taste is terrible

It's an incredible movie. The entire thing feels like some sort of mild nightmare, it's both funny and unsettling. Kino atmosphere, kino story constantly referencing itself for no reasons, kino dirty urban feel. There is nothing like it.

>>212946822 (OP)
Also they didn't know how to end the movie. The original ending they planned was just the van driving off into the night at the end. They decided against it during production and decided to loop Paul back to his workplace, still stuck in the same life but with a completely new appreciation of it after that night, or something like that. I think he even vanishes from his desk but I don't remember if that's intentional.

>>212948180
Vampire's Kiss from the same writer was directed by a Brit nobody and is better. Scorsese and his editor have no comedic momentum, the film is stangely slack and not funny. A rare example of an excellent script ruined by bad direction.

>>212948295
So he wasn't in purgatory? I was sure it was meant to be some kind of purgatory/Jacobs Ladder type deal. The piece of newspaper being stuck to his skin about somebody being beaten to death wasn't him? Also the gates opening at the end before he went up to his office I assumed was supposed to be the gates of Heaven lmfao are you telling me it was just supposed to be taken seriously how everyone acted??

>>212946822 (OP)
Maybe I recommended it, it’s a great film. If you liked it you should check out Martin Scorsese’s contribution to New York Stories. Life Lessons is the title of his short. The other two stories are directed by Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola, and they’re utter dogshit.

>>212948307
I disagree. Then again, After Hours is a rather niche little thing, it's not for everyone. I'm not surprised if anons dislike it. I personally find it brillant.
>>212948382
There is an interview of Scorsese on YouTube, havent watched it in a while but yeah I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be a purgatory or anything. It's just some poor boring fucker getting rekt by Soho at night. Scorsese hated Soho.

>>212948484
Yea might watch it another time. I do like films set in New York especially the Sidney Lumet ones. cheers anon

>>212948523
I guess so kek the witch hunt against him with the wanted posters and how absurd the bar owner acted are what made me think it was a purgatory type deal so those are the main parts that skewed how I saw the film

>>212946822 (OP)
it's really not that deep man, just a farce. pure kino though.

>>212948677
It's the little details, like Julie complaining about her second job at some shit store down the street but at least she can make as much photocopies as she wants kek. Sure we saw that.

I think the purgatory thing wouldnt even make sense since he's already dealing with some serious shit way before meeting Gail. I may remember it wrong, but I think it's just Scorsese shitting on 80's Soho and the deranged faggots and artists living there at the time.

>>212946822 (OP)
It's one of my favorite Scorsese films too. It's a comedy but plays out like an anxiety-induced dream; a really film in his career. It captures another side of male loneliness so it makes a fun companion piece to Taxi Driver too.

>>212948382
yes hes in purgatory in a loop. dont listen to hylics they literally cant even see it

>>212949379
The director of the movie says orherwise.

>>212946822 (OP)
Maybe I'm a retarded schizo but this is one of my favourite movies ever

>>212950251
purgatory is certainly the wrong word but 'a decent into the underworld' would be more accurate. which is how scorcese.describes it
. any one familiar with texts like ishtars decent will see the obvious parallels. its more like dorothies journey in wizard of oz than some christian flagellation.
see the orson welles film The Trial for something similar. purgatory is just a normie term meant to be understood better
im this poster >>212949379 btw
but the film is about being trapped in the underworld. and the writing is literally on the walls of the film

It's not supernatural it's surrealist. Fucking idiots.

>>212950980
I died once for 10 minutes, spent a over month in a coma after. this film is goddamn close to what i saw/ went through its terrifying

itt; people who never stayed up all night roaming the streets of lower Manhattan.

It's a fucking documentary.

>>212948180
>There is nothing like it.
Adventures in Babysitting, my nigga

>>212946822 (OP)
>>212948382
No, it's more like The Odyssey. How you're not in control of your life as much as you think and how you keep sumblin' from event to event for no real reason and with no real meaning.

i think the writer was 26 when he wrote it and you can tell. juvenile and shallow. wonder what scorsese even saw in it.

i just don't like soulless "life has no meaning" people like scorcese

>>212946822 (OP)
It's Kafkaesque (unironically)