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Dark Days, 2000

Starring: Marc Singer

Directed by: Marc Singer

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Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 94 min

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Rating:7.8

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Dark Days can be described as thought provoking, emotional, and contemplative. The plot revolves around drug abuse, being rich or poor, and being down on your luck. The main genres are drama and documentary. In terms of style, Dark Days includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in New York. Dark Days takes place in the 1990s. It is originally a true story. The movie has received attention for being a Sundance Festival winner.

Summary of Dark Days

Dark Days, a groundbreaking documentary from British director Marc Singer with a moving soundtrack from DJ Shadow, shows a way of life that is unimaginable to most people. The film focuses on a group of homeless people that live deep underground in an abandoned New York City railroad tunnel. During the daytime they scavenge for food on the streets of New York. At night, they retreat to the tunnel where they have built homes out of scrap metal, plastic, and plywood. They have electricity, furniture, and working kitchens, not to mention community, comradery, and the support of each other. Some of them have lived in the tunnel for 25 years.

Shot in vivid black and white, capturing both the grit (chicken wire, concrete walls, all precisely detailed) and the honesty (the residents have hit rock bottom and admit it) of the tunnel, Singer's film consists of candid conversations with tunnel residents, who are intelligent, funny, optimistic, and above all, human. One man confesses that he once had a wife and a child, and that he lost both to his drug addiction (crack cocaine), while one teenage boy living in the tunnel explains that he was abused by his family in Florida and simply ran away, finding life in the tunnel more redeeming. In the film's emotional, understated conclusion, Singer turns to New York City's Coalition for the Homeless for help.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	27 January 2000
Runtime:	94 min

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TV Guide

Remarkable film. Full Review

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by: Ken Fox

The New York Times

Dark Days illustrates even the worst nightmare can have descending levels of horror. Full Review

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by: Stephen Holden

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This film really makes you appreciate what you have and makes your little problems seem petty. At least you dont live with rats and sleep in your own sewage next to crack heads (I hope). If ever there was an anti crack movie this is it. If you are... Read and rate it

23.March.2010
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by: xylenz
xylenz rated this movie0/10

Having worked with the homeless, i expected to be really moved by this film and i just wasn't... on the other hand, perhaps i would have been more moved if it was my first exposure of the realities of life on the street... anyway, i liked it, but,... Read and rate it

02.April.2009
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by: christopher cornelius
christopher cornelius rated this movie6/10Okay

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