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Dark Days

Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong LoveRegistered User regular
edited May 2008 in Social Entropy++
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Dark Days is a documentary that was released back in 2000. It followed a group of homeless people's lives for a year, living in an abandoned area of New York's subway stations. The called it Freedom Town, and it was a shithole full of interesting homeless dudes who lived it rough, son.

The director, Marc Singer, had lived among these people and even had them pitching in to help shoot the film.

It is simultaneously the most depressing and most uplifting movie I've ever seen.

Also: This is full of music from DJ Shadow

Any time I start to feel real shitty about the way my life is going, I think "Man, I got it good. I ain't homeless. Fuuuck that."

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  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I remember seeing this a while ago. I had to stop watchin it.

    Just bummed me out.

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    Any time I start to feel real shitty about the way my life is going, I think "Man, I got it good. I ain't homeless. Fuuuck that."

    A mantra we should all have

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    BoredGamer wrote: »
    I remember seeing this a while ago. I had to stop watchin it.

    Just bummed me out.

    Of course. And it fucking should.

    There are uplifting parts, though!
    This one dude beat his crack habit while homeless!

    That shit is crazy.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Homeless guys must have some interesting as fuck stories.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    The end of this film had me in tears, man.

    When you think about the shit you bitch about, and see this ending you immediately feel like a stupid and foolish bitch.

    Alternatively, you may feel awesome and laugh about the ending because you're on the winning side of capitalism.

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    The end of this film had me in tears, man.

    When you think about the shit you bitch about, and see this ending you immediately feel like a stupid and foolish bitch.

    Alternatively, you may feel awesome and laugh about the ending because you're on the winning side of capitalism.

    8-)

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    watch this film or i'll fuckin smack you

    the only other sort of documentaries i'll watch are about wars

    or spelling bees

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  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Or spelling Bee Wars?

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    what did i say about watching this film

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  • IskanderIskander Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    BoredGamer wrote: »
    I remember seeing this a while ago. I had to stop watchin it.

    Just bummed me out.

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Jesus Camp is also a good documentary. It will make you angry and feel bad.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    man fuck movies about religions

    i gave up on that shit years ago

    there is a lot better shit to get all self righteous about

    urban blight, for example

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  • IskanderIskander Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    This would be amazing in a fictional movie set in a dystopian future. All underground societies and shit.

    It is ridiculously depressing in real life though. :(

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    man fuck movies about religions

    i gave up on that shit years ago

    there is a lot better shit to get all self righteous about

    urban blight, for example

    jesus camp was a special kind of "fuuuuck" though

    but dang i'm going to see if i can get Dark Days

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  • Agent VesagoAgent Vesago Half Iago. Half Fu Manchu. All Bastard. Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    J3p wrote: »
    Jesus Camp is also a good documentary. It will make you angry and feel bad.

    Jesus Camp is fucked up.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    you keep god the fuck out of here

    there is no god in the tunnels

    in the tunnels

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  • nzshadownzshadow Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Great movie. excellent soundtrack by DJ Shadow as well.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    When I was in New York I knew there had to be abandoned sections of track that they probably were living in. I mean from some stations you could see other ones below you and way in the distance in the darkness you could see entrances leading off to other even darker more abandoned sections.

    Creepy.

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    How does something get more abandoned?

    Do the cockroaches leave too?

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Unless someone pays them money to fight each other, I'm not really interested.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Iskander wrote: »
    BoredGamer wrote: »
    I remember seeing this a while ago. I had to stop watchin it.

    Just bummed me out.

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught this little gem

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  • GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    BUMBURG!

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Someone already made a thread about this movie last year, but I forgot about it.

    I'll have to add this to The Queue.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    good DJ Shadow or half-assed more recent DJ Shadow?

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  • I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Iskander wrote: »
    BoredGamer wrote: »
    I remember seeing this a while ago. I had to stop watchin it.

    Just bummed me out.

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught this little gem

    I'm not i was like "OOH MAN I AM SO BOLDING THIS"

    and then i found his post

    damn

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    You know what's depressing? That this dude lived with them for a year and went through all the trouble of making this and yet no one's ever heard of it. Good on you for making this thread at least.

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    There was a book about these people by some woman claiming to have lived among them for a year. Apparently her book is full of inaccuracies so who knows. Possibly a lot of it is just urban legend. There are people living down there for sure but the author described it as an ordered society according to the wiki.

    MOLE people!!!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_People

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Graves wrote: »
    BUMBURG!

    Yes.

    That was my first thought upon reading the first post and then I saw "bummed out" and totally forgot.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    IRONWEED IRONWEED LOL

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  • OmegaTofuNinjaOmegaTofuNinja Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Shit, I will try to find this and check it out

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    The Geek wrote: »
    IRONWEED IRONWEED LOL

    what are you even saying

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Meiz wrote: »
    Unless someone pays them money to fight each other, I'm not really interested.

    I have a pretty tasteless sense of humor, but by God every bit of me wants to put a bullet into the heads of the fuckers who do that and put it on DVD.

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    At first it was kind of funny, then when I sat down and thought about it, I realized how horrible this was and how horrible I was for watching it.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Right, it's a lot better when they're clean shaven and have been training in order to pummel each other.

    Then only to cry like sissies when they lose.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    are you actually gonna do this

    will we go down this road

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  • KevarKevar regular
    edited May 2008
    heavily regulated fighting with people who trained for months and doctors at the ringside totally the same thing as exploiting desperation for profit yeah

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Sure.

    From what I see in the trailer, it's a "Look it's homeless people, look how they live. Look how they're just like you and me only in cardboard boxes".

    I don't really need to watch something like that unless it's for some sick fascination. It's not going to make me a better person or get me to pull out a 20 any quicker each time I see one on the street.

    I'd rather see how the richest people live personally; find out what they do exactly in order to tip the scales in their favor. I caught a good glimpse of their methods from watching the Enron documentary. But people seldom talk about that.

    They usually just talk about their needs and interests pertaining to their day to day lives. They'll talk about global warming before poverty because, hey, global warming affects everything and most importantly ME!

    If you're getting the feeling that I'm a little disconnected, yeah, I am. I'm not going to sit here feeling sorry for the homeless when there's society as a whole to blame for it.

    But, I fear this paragraph's wasted on most of you.

    Here's something completely different:
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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Hey guys it's Meiz

    how'd you get those 5 permanent points reversed, Meiz

    I can't imagine Tube showing charity

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I had to do 100 pushups.

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