Movie Reviews for Dark Days

Dark Days

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Movie Review: Dark Days - Got Balls?
Summary: 4 Stars

People live in the NYC subway. Are you freaking serious? That's awesome! We should all aplaud Marc Singer for making this documentary about real people who live down there. Why? Because I sure as hell wouldn't do it. Have you ever seen a NYC rat? They could eat your foot. Cinematically it doesn't even matter because the story is enough, but Singer does a great job given the circumstances. He even won the cinematography award at Sundance in 2000. I was a little shocked by that one. Just validates the expression, "only two kinds of people can afford to live in New York, millionaires and the homeless." I don't know who said that.

Movie Review: Decent video, silly people
Summary: 4 Stars

Great B&W quality. Ends with "Section 8" success fairytale. None of these "homeless" people have higher goals or use their energies wisely to build up capital. Scene at end with people demoing their shanties: clearly people who don't know how to deconstruct things -- improper use of sledgehammer, no crowbars, jumping on roof of crumbling room? Much worse hygiene than ladies in "It Was a Wonderful Life".

Movie Review: ot nearly as good as In Search of the Mole People.
Summary: 3 Stars

Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000)

Dark Days would have been a much, much better movie if Marc Singer, the director and star of this film (if it has one), didn't want so very, very badly to be a rap star. Everything about the film, from its graffiti-esque box font to its DJ Shadow soundtrack to Singer's horrendous diction, for which subtitles should have been used a good portion of the time, leads me to this conclusion.

Singer's documentary, anecdotally made with the help of fellow mole people, details thirty days of Singer's life in the abandoned train tunnels that honeycomb subterranean New York (the same subject to be found in Viktor David's vastly superior documentary In Search of the Mole People). For the most part, it's exactly what you'd expect from such a thing, just chronicling the day-to-day life of Singer and his peers, though Amtrak throws in some drama towards the end when they send out a general eviction notice.

This isn't a bad movie, and it's an inherently fascinating subject; as long as you can understand what's being said, you'll find yourself glued to the screen. Just be aware that it's already been done, and much better than this. ***

Movie Review: Visually Powerful - Weak Character Development
Summary: 3 Stars

Overall, I thought it was a good film. The imagery was very powerful. It was quite interesting to see what life was like in the tunnels.

It got boring at times for me. Alot of what the characters talked about was gibberish. I wanted to hear more about their lives before the tunnel, and what led to the downfall. 'Swagmen' was a great documentary with candid interviews with homeless people.

Oh, & the ending was really corny and unbelievable.