Should you watch Dark Days?
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Dark Days
Documentary · 2000
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
The sides of Dark Days
- People living in the train tunnels under New York
- Shacks built in the dark beside the tracks
- A crew made up of the tunnel residents
Dark Days is good for you if…
- you want to see how people really lived under Manhattan.
- you like hearing people tell their own lives with humour and honesty.
- you like a DJ Shadow score under grainy images.
Dark Days is bad for you if…
- you can't watch addiction and poverty up close.
- you find grainy black and white footage hard to watch.
About: homelessness · dignity · community
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