As a viewing experience, "After School" isn't so much bizarre as inexplicable.
Sure, it's a fairly run-of-the-mill drama about a relationship between a priest and a college girl that threatens to become romantic, and this culminates with an actually fairly pointless debate the priest has with an atheist on the "Dick Cavett show" - with Cavett playing himself.
What's inexplicable is that throughout this tale, scenes of prehistoric people are intercut. Why? What was the point of that? I do not believe that these scenes really tell a story of their own. Why were they included?
It is true that for a brief second, the characters discuss evolution. Does that justify making half the movie "Quest for Fire-lite"?
Of course, the prehistoric people are all almost naked, and played by obvious models chosen for their looks. So it does add nudity. But couldn't they have worked some of that in, in the present day? You know, like every other movie with topless actresses? Why did they have to go back in time just to show some skin?
This is one of the most perplexing filmmaking decisions I have ever witnessed the result of.
