Dark Days Page #8

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
374 Views


that goes all the way around like this.

And eventually I'm gonna get

a new entertainment center.

As you can see, right now

I'm just making do with a bookshelf.

But I'm hoping to eventually get

a new entertainment center...

to put on this wall for everything.

And eventually there'll be

a nice 25-inch color TV here...

with cable hook-up and a VCR

and a nice stereo system.

I plan to get, like, a nice rug

to sit out here.

Yeah, it feels good.

I'm getting new furniture, new carpet.

Yeah, it feels good.

I can't wait. It's like-

I'm telling you, to me, it's like having a-

giving a baby a toy.

He'll play with it all day.

That's the way- That's the way I am.

Every day it's something new,

but it's something good. You know?

Now it feels like I never was in there.

But see, that was the most saddest part...

of my journey through life.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Dark- That was dark days.

Dark. Real dark.

But during the time,

it didn't bother me at all.

But once I sit back and think about it,

I ask myself, "Damn. How could I,

you know, have done that?

Let myself go like that?"

But it be that way, you know?

You don't realize until you get out of it,

and then, you know,

you look back every now and then-

what I went through-

and you say, "Damn. I used to do that?

That used to be me?"

And you say, "Oh, no way".

Yeah. That used to be me.

It definitely used to be me.

I'm tellin' you, to me,

it's like it never happened at all,

and it never will happen again.

Ever, ever, ever.

Never, never, ever happen.

I will never go homeless again.

That was like a nightmare.

You know?

And I woked up out of it,

and I'm staying awake.

I'm serious. I don't want that sh*t.

I don't need it.

Mm-mmm. I'd rather stay working

and, you know, doing good.

I don't wanna be homeless no more.

Whoopee!

It feel real good.

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