Dark Days
by Marc Singer
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Actor: Marc SingerDirector: Marc Singer
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
Cinematographer: Marc Singer
Producer: Marc Singer
Editor: Melissa Niedich
Producer: Avra Jain
Producer: Ben Freedman
Producer: Charlotte Stockdale
Producer: Christopher Griffith
Producer: David Wike
Producer: Giancarlo Bonati
Producer: Gordon Paul
Producer: Mette Jensen
Producer: Morton Swinsky
Producer: Paolo Seganti
Producer: Randall Mesdon
Producer: Rick Giles
Producer: Scott Bradley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Movie Reviews of Dark Days
Movie Review: compelling
Summary: 5 Stars
From the moment this film began I was drawn in. This film and the lives it chronicles draws the viewer in from beginning to end. The homeless "city" under the streets of New York is truly an eye opener, and after the film is over, I found my sense of empathy and understanding for our fellow human beings, driven to this situation, expanded tenfold. The music of DJ Shadow, an artist who has, in his own right, produced some of the most ground-breaking and beautiful music in recent years, was an excellent choice for the scenes throughout. You'll learn to love the characters - real characters in this movie, as they invite us to take a peek into their world, and you'll learn these people are just like you and me but made some bad choices and fell on some bad luck. What you might take away most of all is that even in the bleakest of situations, there is a light, if only one chooses to seek it out.
Summary of Dark Days
"Dark Days" is the multi-award winning documentary from Marc Singer about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. The film depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above. 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. The director abandoned life on the outside to spend all of his time in the tunnels, making it his home for two years. Surprisingly entertaining and deeply moving, "Dark Days" is an eye-opening experience that shatters the myths of homelessness with the strength and universality of the people the film represents.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
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