8 thoughts on “For Your Consideration: The Morning After The Night Before

  1. Nilbert

    This film has it all. Defiant of dramatic convention, it celebrates the mundane everyday in a contemplative, emotive and often sardonically humorous single act.

    Individuals often turn to the cinematic arts not only to glean inspiration and perspective from the vision of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to seek a reconciliation in narrative with the catastrophes rearranging their lives.
    Every time I re-watch it, I find something new in the depths of this fertile opus – an existential tour de force!

  2. On The Buses

    I’m guessing the subtext is that him and all his mates took part in a spontaneous act coitus after their homoerotic display, and he is now dealing with his conflicting feelings regarding how very much he enjoyed it?

  3. ploppy

    Years from now people will look back on David Thomas Smith’s The Morning After the Night Before and recognise it as the first indication of the full flowering of this great artist’s genius. A ground-breaking allegorical depiction of masculinity in crisis, and one of the very first films to reveal that people behave differently when drunk than sober, The Morning After the Night Before presents the hangover as a striking metaphor for the predicament faced by modern man in a post-patriarchal society. The apt use of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell is a bleakly ironic encapsulation of the fears and anxieties of a generation of men increasingly unsure of their role in society, and with only the soothing black-and-amber-bannered platitudes of Joe.ie to turn to for solace. This revelatory masterwork will be striking audiences dumb with awe for decades to come.

  4. PeteS

    Even for 25 seconds, that was a waste of time. It wasn’t funny, or clever. It just was. Unless it was an experiment to deafen the audience by having noise blasting out after the cuts because the ‘director’ hasn’t a ****ing clue about balancing sound levels. Garbage. And it’s unnecessarily angered me beyond a reasonable level.

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