Martin Scorsese's After Hours is so underappreciated, it feels like his take on a David Lynch/Kafka-esque nightmare

I really wasn't expecting After Hours to be so good. It's a dark film noir comedy, described as somewhat of 'yuppie nightmare cycle'.

The main character Paul goes through a series of misadventures late at night after going to visit a girl he met in a coffee shop, who turns out to be quite disturbed and everything goes wrong for him.

It really has the feel of auteur filmmaking, there's lots of recurring themes and motifs throughout as Paul gets into a series of scenarios and disquieting interactions. It feels so Kafka-esque as there are moments laced with such dark humour, it feels like Martin Scorsese's take on a David Lynch movie.

It all comes together so beatufilly as all the story threads fall in to place.

Fantastic performance from Griffin Dunne as well as Paul.

After watching it, I feel it's massively under appreciated. I can see why it hasn't receieved the same attention of Scorsese's other films as it's far less showy than his others and doesn't have a big star attached to it.

Terrific movie. Has anyone else got more thoughts on it they could share here?

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