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Dark Days (2000)

Director: Marc Singer

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A novice documentarist mixes with the 'mole people' of Manhattan's train tunnels. Marc Singer is not interested, however, in displacing the denizens of this unlikely habitat, but in documenting the simple fact of them - their way of life and their outlook. The film records a Hadean vision of the city's genuine underground. HG Wells foresaw the dispossessed living something like this in the year 802,701, but his Morlocks were creatures of the night, picking off the powerless above ground. As Singer swiftly clarifies, the men and women who fall into this particular chasm are society's truly vulnerable. The film's deference to its subjects' reality is such that it eschews drama and style, preferring a spare, to-camera intimacy. Hence the surprise when Singer turns to describing the eviction of the mole people by Amtrak and their resettlement overground: a happy ending that leaves a raft of questions begging.

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Cast & crew

Director: Marc Singer

Producer: Marc Singer

Cast: Rick Rubell, Mike Harris, Tommy, Tito, Ralph, Greg, Henry, Ronnie, Clarence, Dee, Julio, Lee, Brian full cast

Genre(s): Documentaries

Duration: 82 mins


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