Dark Days Page #4

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
360 Views


but people that don't really know

what's goin' on, you know,

and they're just looking around,

looking to find something...

or steal something or whatever, you know-

When you walk by it, you know,

you trip the trap.

Make all that noise.

Damn. Y'all still here?

Hey, y'all must want

to hang out with me or somethin'.

Yeah.

Man! Y'all think you can keep up?

Come on.

'Cause I'm gettin' ready to get paid

about right now.

I ain't tryin' to hear it.

I'm gettin' ready to go out

and make me some money.

I bet you I come back with $10.

I'm gonna get paid.

Ain't no doubt about it.

Eighty percent of the

population down here is crackheads.

And that might be an understatement.

Might be a little more than that.

It's really bad, you know,

because they smoke this sh*t

and they get so hooked up on it,

they just lose sight of reality.

They don't take care of theirself.

Half of them don't wash their ass.

You know, and they're always

on some bullshit...

where they always think

that somebody's out to

get 'em and stuff like that.

It's really f***ed up, you know?

I've seen guys sell coats right

off their back in the middle of winter,

when it's 20 degrees outside,

just to support a drug habit.

I don't see how people can let

something- something do that do them,

take control of their life like that.

Myself, I can't go out like that.

It was on New Year's.

I was sitting in the room with the-

with my little stepdaughter.

I was sittin' in the room and sh*t,

and then they call me over

to the room. -Mm-hmm.

And they told me,

"You wanna get high?"

You know?

"You want some crack?"

I said, "No. I tried that sh*t.

That sh*t don't do nothin' to me".

So they said, "Well, try this".

- Yeah.

- You know?

So what they did was

that they put res-

You know, they cook it up

and they put res,

and then they put crack

on top of the res. -Sh*t. Yeah.

So I didn't know anything

about that sh*t.

And when I smoked that sh*t, that sh*t

f***in' rocked my f***in' legs, man.

And my sh*t is like-

You know, I like to O.D.

- I like to almost O.D. on drugs.

- Yeah.

I like to go to the highest.

Man, I loved it.

I loved it. -Wow.

And I kept smoking,

kept smoking.

But I never got to get back to that high,

that first high. -That first high, yeah.

I never got it.

And I wasted

so much money, and- and-

You know,

I made a mess of myself.

Well, you see what mess

I'm into now. -Wow.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Because I wanted that high.

Man, you know,

my wife kicked me out.

She really f***in'- She had my

f***in' clothes packed, bro. -Wow.

Swear to God, man. She had

my f***in' clothes packed, man.

- Had enough, man.

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