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Dark Days
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DARK DAYS (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0660200303624
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd
MPN: PALMDV3036
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Running Time: 84 minutes
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
In the pitch black of the tunnel rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn Station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground it has been home for as long as twenty-five years.Deeply moving and surprisingly entertaining Dark Days is an eye-opening experience that shatters the myths of homelessness by revealing a thriving community living in tunnels beneath New York City and honestly capturing their resilience and strength in their struggle to survive.System Requirements: Running Time 84 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 660200303624 Manufacturer No: PALMDV3036
For two years Marc Singer lived with the people who make their home in the tunnels beneath Penn Station in New York, creating an unflinching portrait of a part of society that is literally and figuratively beneath our notice.
"You'd be surprised what the human mind and body can adjust to," says Tito, one of the tunnel dwellers. He and his neighbors are homeless, but the tunnels offer them a degree of safety that doesn't exist on the streets above. In this strange place they manage to achieve a remarkable degree of domesticity, building shelters, keeping pets, and cooking meals.
Singer has an eye for telling images, such as Dee dragging a sofa along the train tracks like Sisyphus rolling his stone in Hell. With its grainy black-and-white photography and haunting soundtrack, this is a surprisingly beautiful film, but it is never sentimental, nor does it try to impose a false nobility on its subjects. Dark Days simply shows us a world that we never knew existed, and in this simplicity lies its power. --Simon Leake
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a tip of the hat to Marc Sanger
Marc Sanger can be applauded for his outstanding heartopening documentary on a group of people living under a tunnel in New York City. Watching the DVD we get to know each of the characters and see ourselves as one of the same. They bleed and have a beating heart like all of us yet many of us close our eyes when we pass them by on the street corner. After being turned off by the educational system and the contradictions of our present society I left college and traveled across the country. I found ... Read More
Rating: - Homeless, yes; helpless, no
Ready for a wonderland?
Early in the film, a homeless man uncovers a passage and lowers himself into an Amtrak tunnel--home to residents of a long-standing shanty town. What follows is, at times, wrenching: the interview with the woman whose children were killed in a house fire; tender: the man with pictures of his favorite pets; revolting: the cuts to the lighter snapped on, then on again, then on again, then on again, then on again--always lighting another crack pipe.
The neighborhood is ... Read More
Rating: - Very Interesting, Quite Surprising.
"Dark Days" is a documentary where the film maker follows the lives of several people who live within the subway tunnels of New York City. This documentary gives an up close and personal look of how these people live and survive. The most surprising thing you take away from this movie is that although many of these people have problems (substance abuse, family, mental) they are surprisingly human and easy to relate to. The "houses" that these people build in the tunnels are amazing with everything from ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent
As even the negative reviewers have been picking up on, this film was beautifully captured, and reminded me very much of Jem Cohen's documentary work which is breathtaking (albeit in a very raw form).
Singer (the director) spent about 2.5 year living with and being with people living in the Amtrak tunnel in small 'houses' that they had built, showing the very real community that thrived there. IMPORTANT: watch the 'making of' documentary that's in the extra features, which in a much clearer ... Read More
Rating:  - Surrealistic boredom.
This documentary certainly has a compelling sort of ambience given that the whole thing is in grainy black and white film and shot in the surrealistic environment of a community of "homeless" people living underground in a train tunnel. I put quotes around "homeless" because in fact these people had built themselves homes out of scrap material, so they were really homeless people with homes they made themselves. Also, the music score is totally appropriate and helps too.
However, the bottom line ... Read More
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