ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a cult film formation in Hong Kong SAR cinema—The Midnight After, directed by Fruit Chan and released in 2015—as symptomatic of a post–Cold War fear of death, morbidity, and the disappearance of humankind and their pasts. In the dystopian science-fiction story, the impossibility of imagining the city’s decolonial and postnational futures are displaced by the fear of an unknown authority conducting destructive scientific experiments on the citizens. The film asks viewers to decide for themselves how to keep the storytelling going, and to reimagine how an alternative diverse society can be worked out.
