'After Hours' in the Afterlife: The Case for Paul Hackett's Hell
'After Hours' in the Afterlife: The Case for Paul Hackett's Hell In Martin Scorsese's 1985 black comedy, a man's desperate quest to get home after a night gone wrong is actually his eternal damnation. Warner Bros. In our monthly column Laughed to Death, we look at the way comedy and existentialism go hand-in-hand in seemingly unlikely ways. For this installment, Brianna Zigler makes the case for how Martin Scorsese’s 1985 black comedy After Hours discreetly portrays a dead man damned to his own endless eternity. “What do you want from me?” Paul Hackett shrieks to the heavens, to the ...
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