Featured Audience Ratings

• Jim H

  
  New York City homeless create a small community in Amtrak's tunnels. While there's no hero or central figure in Dark Days, one gets the sensation that all of these people are together living one life. With a few exceptions, many of them are drug-addled and have shady pasts.… More
  New York City homeless create a small community in Amtrak's tunnels. While there's no hero or central figure in Dark Days, one gets the sensation that all of these people are together living one life. With a few exceptions, many of them are drug-addled and have shady pasts. My father used to say that we're all one bad day from being homeless, an assertion one of my right-wing professors in graduate school scoffed at, and what few stories we see of these people's pasts prove my father's point. I wish the documentary had more of these because the nagging question throughout was how these people got to be where they are, but I suppose that, as one of the film's subjects stated, one has to live day to day in order to survive, which doesn't leave too much time for reflecting about the past. Overall, I would have liked to have seen more inidividualization of the documentary's subjects, but for what it is, Dark Days is a very strong film about the forgotten members of our society.

• Jason S

  
  A brutally honest look at the world of homeless people in New York. We get to hang out with these people as they try and build a life in the underground tunnels of Amtrack. They don't make any attempt to tell a story here. They just let life play out and take us along for the… More
  A brutally honest look at the world of homeless people in New York. We get to hang out with these people as they try and build a life in the underground tunnels of Amtrack. They don't make any attempt to tell a story here. They just let life play out and take us along for the ride.

• Sophie B

  
  This was really interesting in being able to see how these people really live. They're making the most of their situation and it shows them as real people who realise their mistakes and feel guilty about what they've done and wish it could be changed. It's also really… More
  This was really interesting in being able to see how these people really live. They're making the most of their situation and it shows them as real people who realise their mistakes and feel guilty about what they've done and wish it could be changed. It's also really good that these people were allowed a second chance because of this film.

• Gordon A

  
  Moving documentary with an evenhanded positive attitude to homeless peoples' plight. It explores their sad back stories but ends in a spirit of hope for the future.

• Stella D

  
  a powerful documentary about a group of homeless people living in an abandoned stretch of amtrak tunnel under nyc, some of them for years. first time filmmaker marc singer lived underground for several months, then decided to make a film to raise money to help his friends. using… More
  a powerful documentary about a group of homeless people living in an abandoned stretch of amtrak tunnel under nyc, some of them for years. first time filmmaker marc singer lived underground for several months, then decided to make a film to raise money to help his friends. using loaned equipment and the homeless as his crew, he recorded their strange life in this moving film. during this time amtrak sought to forcibly evict them from the tunnel. a fascinating story and amazing work by a group of non professionals, with a fitting soundtrack by dj shadow

• John B

  
  Wow!! We have often heard the stories about the rats living in the New York subway system but who would have thought that an actual society could be living down there like naked mole rats. A true eye opener.

• Lesley N

  
  The music, the atmosphere, the story, the subject matter.. brilliant. One of those documentaries that stays in the mind fo a long time afterwards.

• Wu C

  
  Facinating doc about homeless people living in a subway tunnel in NYC. Everyone should see this.

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