Dark Days
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Movie Reviews of Dark Days
Movie Review: This may be all of us, after a cataclysm
Summary: 5 Stars
Thoughtfully done by an apparent empath, without hurrying, without staging. The pace seems to faithfully replicate the actual days lived by each person who was kind enough to let us into their lives. Well done.Movie Review: Must See!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a fan of documentary film then this is a must see. This is a beautiful film that both inspires you and saddens you at the same time. Please watch this!Movie Review: Evocative film
Summary: 4 Stars
DARK DAYS goes underground to show how the mole people in the tunnels of New York city live. By showing the homes that they've built and their attempts to yield power over their lives DARK DAYS emphasizes the universal need we all share for a sense of home.
As we shift through the dark space of their world that is at once claustrophobic and cavernous, we see the mundane rituals of ordinary life play out: cooking, raising pets, cleaning, and showering. The men (and one woman) of this film speak of a life lived autonomous from societal intervention. One senses that the filmmaker, and more adamantly the homeless themselves, are trying to convince us that here in the subterranean garbage disposal of life, their needs are being provided for by the trash of the world that is chewed up and spit out. In the film, these leftovers become a metaphor for the people themselves - as they revel in finding a treasure of discarded donuts, or show their opportunist nature by collecting cans for cash to buy heroin. As our waste becomes their livelihood, we start to see them more and more as individuals. "We're not homeless," one man tells us, "homeless is when you don't have a home." But then his friend corrects him. "Nah, you're still homeless. You just ain't helpless." But as the film progresses, we start to perceive something in the darkness, something invisible around the edges that keeps them buried underground; it's their addiction to drugs, and the memories of past lives that are fraught with anguish and suffering. They are lost souls - shadow people moving through an ethereal, timeless landscape.
I highly recommend this film.
Movie Review: Looking into the unknown...
Summary: 4 Stars
...and finding the mundane.
I would suggest to the people that are slamming this movie that this type of flick is not your cup of tea. Go pop a Matt Damon movie in.
This is a great movie on two fronts. First of all, the camera work and editing is perfect, and secondly, it seems to me that Singer's approach to this film is to simply show the viewer that homeless people are not the paper-thin cliche's that our mind conjures up when we hear the word, but three-dimensional human beings that have the same concerns, and live the same life that any of us do.
What is so incredible about this movie is that you expect to see something truly bizarre occurring in those tunnels, and what you actually see is a group of people, doing their thing, just like anyone else. They are a diverse group, which in itself is unexpected. As the film progresses, their plywood huts really begin to seem like any other community, except in a tunnel. It's surreal.
I don't think for a second that Singer wants us to pity these people, honestly a lot of them aren't doing too bad (considering the circumstances). I think the point here is just to observe, and to see that these "freaks" are pretty much just standard-issue human beings.
Movie Review: Patch
Summary: 4 Stars
I was initially interested in this movie very much but my expectations were totally wrong. I expected a weird, dark, twisted journey into the minds of people who could live underground in a subway tunnel. It wasn't like that at all. This is one of the most uplifting movies I've ever seen and a (cue cheesy reviewer soundbyte) remarkable meditation on the triumph of the human spirit. I swear to god, I mean that. It even has a happy ending. I don't want to tell you too much, but this movie was interesting, but it also made me feel really good. The human mind/spirit/being has an amazing ability to adapt and go on and infact (to a degree) flourish despite the everyday (...) of existance.