Dark Days (2000)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
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Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 3
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Novice filmmaker Marc Singer lived in the bowels of a midtown Manhattan railway station for two years to shoot this harrowing account of the day-to-day existence of the homeless. Shot in noirish black and white, Singer shows how society's discarded and disenfranchised fashion a community of sorts in the sunless labyrinth of the station's transit tunnels. Though told without narration, a dozen or so individual stories emerge. Dee (the sole woman depicted in the film) lost all her children in a
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Marc Singer's feted 2000 doc about a Manhattan subterranean community has lost none of its power since its debut.
Top CriticShot in stylized black-and-white, this docu about the homeless was the winner of multiple awards at the Sundance Film Fest.
A deeply humanistic documentary about NYC's "lower depths".
The documentary feels like it surreptitiously removed another barrier to more direct relations between those behind and in front of the camera.
Dark Days remains a vital documentation and representation of a continuing, widespread problem, the resonance of which is heightened in these fragile, economically troubled times.
One of the best films about the homeless ever made.
A tribute to its characters' indomitable spirits.
As a chronicle of midnight and dawn in the great human day, Dark Days ranks among the most moral of films.
haunting documentary about the homeless beneath New York's streets
An unromanticized and fascinating glimpse of the lives of a community of homeless people surviving in a train tunnel in Manhattan.
A superb film that, unlike so many others, will make you realise the value of what you have.
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While there's no hero or central figure in Dark Days, one gets the sensation that all of these people are together living one life. With a few exceptions, many of them are drug-addled and have shady pasts. My father used to say that we're all one bad day from being homeless, an assertion one of my right-wing professors in graduate school scoffed at, and what few stories we see of these people's pasts prove my father's point. I wish the documentary had more of these because the nagging question throughout was how these people got to be where they are, but I suppose that, as one of the film's subjects stated, one has to live day to day in order to survive, which doesn't leave too much time for reflecting about the past.
Overall, I would have liked to have seen more inidividualization of the documentary's subjects, but for what it is, Dark Days is a very strong film about the forgotten members of our society.