Dark Days Page #5

Synopsis: Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this "family." A dozen or so men and one woman talk about their lives: horrors of childhood, jail time, losing children, being coke-heads. They scavenge, they've built themselves sturdy one-room shacks; they have pets, cook, chat, argue, give each other haircuts. A bucket is their toilet. Leaky overhead pipes are a source of water for showers. They live in virtual darkness. During the filming, Amtrak gives a 30-day eviction notice.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Marc Singer
Actors: Marc Singer
Production: Picture Farm
  7 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
2000
82 min
392 Views


They looking right at me and sh*t

and jumping and sh*t.

But I almost caught

one of them motherfuckers last night.

Soon as he jumped - bam.

I didn't hit him directly

on his motherfuckin' head,

but that motherf***er went away-

I know he ain't come back

last night for no more.

He said f*** that. He had enough.

But he went and told his relatives.

Tell you, man.

I couldn't sleep at all last night.

Sh*t. But it ain't gonna

be like that sh*t tonight.

It might be like that tonight,

but I know they gonna be fooled tonight.

Look like I can't get rid

of this motherf***er.

I got to clean up behind him

worse than I do me.

He don't bring no company

with him either. He by himself.

Motherf***er.

Every time I see this motherf***er,

that make me have a worse night's sleep,

because I know he in here

and I know he walk at night.

He walk at night,

and I try to sleep at night.

So me and him ain't gonna make it

with that kinda sh*t.

I hope... this'll-

Well, this may make him

go under my bed,

but I'm gonna put that lye down.

I hope he come back and check his

house out and the food I have for him.

And then I got something for his ass then.

Talkin' about now I'm cookin' him

something to eat, man.

I'm tired of him takin' my sh*t.

Keep tellin' 'em, man,

they ain't got to take it and sh*t.

Just ask me for it. Sh*t, you know?

I'll give you- I'll fix you a meal.

I'm definitely gonna fix 'em

something to eat.

I'm gonna fix 'em a good meal. After

this, they ain't gonna want no more.

They ain't gonna want

nothin' else to eat after this.

'Cause I'm gonna put sausages in it, oatmeal.

And I'm gonna put the topping

on top of it and sh*t.

Once I put that on top of it and sh*t,

all they gonna want is water.

What is that?

It's poison. Sh*t.

They got some wise-ass rats out there.

Give 'em a pack of this.

Pack of this'll keep 'em away.

You know?

Once I mix this all up and sh*t,

they ain't gonna want

nothin' else to eat, man.

Gonna be too full.

After they get their water, all they

gonna want to do is just go lay down.

That's all. And they ain't gonna

want to get back up no more.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Look good, don't it?

It look good, my friend.

I ain't gonna stand here

and lie to you.

It look good.

- You want some, don't you?

- No, sir.

You ain't gonna get none.

There's some things you do

and some things you don't do.

- Well, what's that?

- The sh*t you doin' now.

What I'm doin' now, I am eatin'.

I understand that. You know-

- This tastes good.

- I-

- This is rice.

- What-

This is ham. Fried.

Seasonin' real good.

And it tastes very good.

And it's clean.

Probably cleaner than some of those

come out of the kitchens

in restaurants and stuff.

This is clean food,

and it tastes very good.

- Lot of flavor.

- The food might-

- It was clean food.

- Mmm.

What's the- I mean-

You cannot dump on this.

All you can do is just eat this

and keep on eatin',

and you'll probably want more.

Yo, Tommy!

- What's up, Tommy?

- Oh, sh*t. Oh, sh*t.

What's up, man?

What's up?

- When did they let you out, yo?

- What's goin' on over here?

Oh, damn. Yo. This is Marc.

This is my friend Marc.

What's up? How you doin'? -This is my

boy Brian I been talkin' to you about.

- Yo, you lost a lot of weight, kid.

- Yeah. What's up, man?

Seriously, when did they let you out?

When did you build

the f***in' loft?

While you was up north and sh*t.

Proper.

- What's up, yo?

- Nothin', man.

I can't believe your sh*t, yo.

- Oh, sh*t.

- No doubt, no doubt.

Hey, eight and a half months, kid.

No doubt. Too long too.

Eight and a half.

- Too long.

- Come on, let's go inside.

Oh, sh*t.

It looks nice in the back.

- That enough?

- Turn around.

Turn around.

Lookin' good.

What's so funny?

What the hell did you do?

Hold still.

Don't be f***in' around, Dee.

Holy sh*t.

F***in' cold!

Ahhh!

Oh, f***.

Oh!

Holy sh*t. F***ing cold!

Oh, my goodness!

- Huh?

- That's a lot of sh*t.

You know, hey.

What you expect with four dogs, man?

Especially growing-

You know, growing puppies sh*t a lot.

F***in' sh*t!

It's like- I remember back

when I just had Ladybugs.

Never got like this. Never.

- Feels good, does it?

- It feels good, but it's f***in' cold.

Aw, just speed it up some.

Holy sh*t!

Ohh!

Welcome back to the sh*t, right?

Brr!

You not gonna stop doin'

anything until you ready to stop.

So don't you think it's about time

for you to stop?

No. When I get good and ready,

I'm gonna stop.

- And when is that?

- When? I don't know.

- It could stop me.

- So, that's the problem.

It could stop you

instead of you stopping it.

Yeah, but still in all-

But I don't like to be pressured.

- I was smoking crack, and I stopped.

- But you still smokin' reefer.

I smoke reefer, but I don't

smoke crack. -Well, all right.

- But regardless, it's still a narcotic.

- There's a difference to it.

- You ain't gonna stop doin' anything-

- There's a difference to it.

No. No, no. -You could smoke a

f***in' bag of reefer and chill out-

- I understand all that.

- The only thing that-

- No, no, but check this out.

- It's still a drug. It's still a drug.

- But check this-

- Anything you want-

When you get ready

to stop something,

you gonna stop it on your own.

- You don't have to-

- I'm not saying that-

- I'm not saying that.

- Okay, but-

I'm not saying that. -By-By-By you

keep saying to me stop smoking crack,

it only makes me want

to go out and smoke more.

- Why? You a baby?

- You understand what I'm sayin'?

- You ain't no baby.

- Don't pressure me. That's pressure.

- That's putting pressure on me.

- So when you gonna stop?

You understand what I'm saying?

When you stop putting pressure on me-

When you and the other people

stop putting pressure on me-

Yeah, but you put it, like,

I smoke reefer-

- I smoke reefer, but what happens-

- I don't put pressure on you.

But what happens

when I smoke reefer?

- I sit down, I chill out-

- I understand all that.

- And the only thing I do is eat.

- But regardless, still, fact remains.

I still... -All right, I'm not

gonna put no pressure on you.

That's it. You do- You wanna-

Don't- Don't come back and say

that you didn't do it when you did it.

Don't come back over here

talkin' about you didn't do it.

But don't even bother to ask me.

But don't bother to say it.

I'm being punished

for every goddamn thing I did wrong.

And still got more punishment to come

'cause I done so much sh*t wrong.

I-

I mean,

I done a lot of things wrong.

A lot.

I get to the point where

sometimes I feel like crying.

You know.

Sometimes I feel like crying.

Sort of like-

Because, uh, I-

It was that I was so damn selfish with

myself, with everybody around me.

I was- It was all about me. It was-

I didn't care about what

anybody thought, you know.

I was f***ed up.

I went- Listen. I went to jail.

I got caught robbing.

I went to jail, let's say, today.

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