Dark Days Page #2

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
354 Views


- This stop you from being helpless.

- Oh, yeah.

But if you consider you ain't homeless

once you get down here,

you're not doin'

but throwin' brakes on your life.

Sh*t. I got real comfortable down here

in this f***in' dump and sh*t, man.

Let's face it, man.

I mean, like, down here,

didn't have to pay no bills, no nothin'.

Look at me. I'm shavin' with-

I'm using power right now...

and I ain't even got to pay

the motherfuckin' bills and sh*t.

I mean, that's part of comfortability

and sh*t. You know what I'm sayin'?

Turn the TV on, leave the TV on all night.

Ain't gotta worry about paying Con Ed.

You know?

That's f***ed up, but that's one reason

how I got so comfortable and sh*t.

You know?

In the winter time, I don't freeze.

Summer time, I don't burn up.

You know? All they don't got

down here is running water.

And we did have that down here,

believe it or not, at one time.

We had running water.

Of course I got f***in' comfortable, man.

Got too goddamn comfortable.

That's why I'm really

pissed off at myself, man.

'Cause I, like, lost five, six years

of my motherfuckin' life

being down in this motherf***er.

Man, I'm gettin' ready to

go out and make me some money.

I got to get paid.

Got to make that almighty dollar.

So, what's happenin'?

How you go about doin' that?

I got to do my normal, man.

I got to go out,

try to find me something to sell.

First I got to find out what I got here

from last night.

I got these off of 75th Street.

CDs. You know what I'm sayin'?

I can sell these

to my man on 82nd Street.

And these some good CDs.

Plus I got a couple of books.

You know? Hey, I'm gonna get paid, brother.

You know how us homeless guys do it.

We got to make a dollar.

This my motherfuckin' van here.

That's right. That's my van.

That's right.

That's a bad motherf***er too.

Four-wheel drive. That's right.

This is my motherfuckin'

station wagon. That's right.

If you notice, they the biggest ones,

and there go they motherfuckin' kids.

That's right.

Eeny, meeny and f***in' miney.

You understand what I'm sayin'?

And the reason why I'm saying this,

because each one of them f***in' carts

contain something.

And what's that something? Money.

That's like they say - mo' money,

mo' money, mo' money, mo' money...

and mo' motherfuckin' money.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Free enterprises.

What peoples throw away,

other peoples can use.

And by them can use it,

I get paid for it because I find it.

And half of the time, they be

in perfect working condition.

You know? Be just like new.

You know?

But down here, man- You be surprised

the stuff that I be findin'...

and I be sellin', getting top dollar for,

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