Dark Days Page #3

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
358 Views


you know?

- What sort of things?

- Like VCRs, color televisions.

Little portable televisions

like this.

You know what I'm sayin'?

I found that.

Heaters like this.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Now, I don't sell everything.

Stuff that I can use, I keep.

But stuff that I just-

I can't use, I sell.

You know?

Everything you got

that you paid for, I can-

Nine time out of 10,

I will go out there and find it,

and it be in perfect working condition.

And I sells it. You know?

That's the name of the game -

hustling.

I'm a hustler, bro. I get paid.

What are you doing?

I'm putting this sign.

There's no- no crack.

Because they be knockin' on my house

sometimes, and they-

and they want to borrow a stem.

And I don't smoke crack no more.

It took- You know-

It- The crack f***ed me up, man.

The crack got me down here.

Well, crack helped me

get down here.

And then- Now I stopped.

You know? And it took me

a f***in' long time to realize...

that that sh*t wasn't, you know-

That wasn't it. That wasn't me.

So I don't want 'em in my house.

Because if I see it around me,

every time- every time-

and I let people smoke in my house -

then I'm gonna want to get the urge.

It's bad enough that sometimes-

I stopped crack already for a long time,

for more than three years now.

And sometimes I wake up

with the urge.

And I haven't done it

for more than three years,

and sometimes I still wake up

with the urge to smoke it, but I fight it.

And then I'm gonna have these people

knockin' on my house...

talkin' about if I got a stem

or they could go inside and smoke.

You know, that sh*t's gonna

f*** me all up again.

So I said, "Well, let me go ahead

and put a sign".

So that way, these a**holes

could read it...

and don't knock.

I do like you do sometime.

Heat it up a little bit.

Because if you don't-

Ain't no use in wastin' it.

You know?

Just heat it up a little bit.

That's doin' it.

Okay, uh, this is one

of the things I, uh, keep-

to keep myself a little safer than

what, uh, supposed to be down here.

But I usually set up this trap with

these pans and everything over here.

Simply, uh, put a pan like that.

Put a little pencil underneath there...

so, uh, it'll roll if somebody does come by.

Put it like that, make sure it's on there.

Come over here and tie it

to the other side underneath.

So that way, you know,

if they even got a flashlight,

they can't really see

in the dark down here.

They can't really see.

And, uh, I tie it to over here.

Not very tight, but, uh,

whatever movement you give it

from up there-

So, like, when you walk by it, you know,

when you trip the wire-

You can see that at nighttime, you know,

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