Dark Days Page #5

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
364 Views


- 'Cause she scared.

'Cause she told me,

"Either the drugs or me".

And I kept saying her, but I kept

f***in' goin' back to the drugs.

One day when I went home, man,

my clothes was all packed, man.

You know, today is

a f***ed-up day and sh*t, man.

'Cause this Dumpster is empty.

And I ain't seein' sh*t in here.

This sh*t used to be stacked

up to the top with garbage.

I used to be walkin' around the edge

of this sh*t. Nothin' but garbage.

I'd spend about 45 minutes trying to

go through all of this bullshit in here.

Right here,

ain't sh*t in here today.

Nothin'. Nothin' but garbage.

What did you say about this spot?

I love it. -What'd you say

about this spot?

This spot here,

there's always a lot of plastic.

There's never really been

very many cans here.

It's always been a lot

of plastic stuff.

I used to get, like, easy money.

I usually get three or four

dollars' worth of cans outta here.

But I usually get, like, two bags,

maybe two and a half

bags like this with plastics.

What is the best thing you sell?

The best thing I sell?

It's hard to say,

but I sell anything.

- What-

- What sells the best?

What sells the best?

Nasty movies.

Nasty f*ggot movies.

Boy movies.

Them d*cks be slingin' and sh*t.

Them faggots be gathered about.

They be muggin' you

for that sh*t, man.

I mean, basically, those f*ggot books

and f*ggot movies...

sell quicker than girlie books

and girlie movies.

I remember me and my partner had, like,

Soon as we came out with this sh*t,

we sold all of them

before we sold any other book.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Once them faggots be passin' by

and see them d*cks hangin' out,

man, they be backin' up.

Man, they go and-

I had a motherfuckin' crowd.

We had a crowd, man, that day.

But that's what sells -

anything in porno, mainly sissy.

You know what I'm sayin'?

But right now, see,

I'm too early or too late, one.

Ain't nothin' out here.

Not yet anyway.

But it'll get better. It definitely will

pick up. You know what I'm sayin'?

By the end of today,

how much will you have?

Uh, well, usually on Fridays, if I work

all day, about $70- 60 or 70 bucks.

Have enough to play around a little bit.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Stinking rich. I call it- I call it

being crackhead rich for the day.

You know what I'm sayin'? 'Cause I got

enough money to go out there, you know,

do basically what I wanna do

for a day or two, you know?

But it gets me through the weekend.

I usually take Saturdays and Sundays off

and chill, you know?

I've always done that.

I ran away from home when I was 16.

I got tired of putting up

with my parents' bullshit.

So I just said "F***," and I left.

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