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 Dark Days (DVD)
 Dark Days (DVD) ... Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Black & White, PAL, Widescreen / For two years Marc Singer lived with the people who make their home in the tunnels beneath Penn Station in New York, creating Dark Days, 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. Along with his neighbours he is 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 false nobility on its subjects. Dark Days shows a world that we never knew existed, and in this simplicity lies its power. --Simon LeakeNewest Review: ... Ralph opens his makeshift home to her. He would have to make an exception to the NO CRACK protest he'd mounted, as Dee was a ... more ... chronic addict whose life had been ravaged by the drug. We later discover that Dee lost both her children to fire while she was in jail. She would be safe with Ralph though, he'd been down there for three years and had built an impressive shack complete with lighting, a stove, and sofa bed. Safe maybe, but becoming embroiled in what can only be described as a series of entertaining 'domestics' with Ralph, concerning everything from her crack use to a plastic cup.
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Dark Days [DVD] [2001]
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Read Reviews for Dark Days (DVD)
Dark Days (DVD): Dark Days Indeed (1258 words)
by - written on 07/11/08 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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"NO CRACK HERE" Trying to avoid something so entwined in homeless culture seems a futile pursuit when you live rough beneath the streets of Manhattan. But futility is a theme that runs throughout Dark Days, a docu-film by British born Marc Singer. The message is being daubed by Ralph, a Puerto Rican ex-addict who had been clean for some time. This time he isn't going back, he pauses to tell the camera, through the telltale drawl brought on by years of abuse. As he paints and re-paints the words on his front door, it seems debateable whether this is for the benefit of others or a reaffirmation of his own will to stay clean. ... Read the complete review
Welcome to The Tunnel (1518 words)
by - written on 26/06/02 (Very useful, 452 readings)
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New York, 1991. Underneath the hustle and bustle of the city lies a myriad of underground railway tracks. Amtrak, who owns the railways, begins laying track for a new passenger service along one of the disused lines under Penn Station (hereafter to be known as The Tunnel). When doing so, they find a community of around 150 people, living underground in their own modern-day shanty town, in perpetual darkness and surrounded by a swarm of rats. This film was made about and by the inhabitants of The Tunnel. It captures everyday life for those who live below ground with extraordinary clarity, showing you their homes, their dreams, their weaknesses, but ... Read the complete review
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