A documentary about homeless people living in New York’s subway system
doesn’t sound a cheery prospect, but Marc Singer’s debut feature
confidently illuminates a group of people who are, above all, human.
Shot in night-vision black and white, Dark Days follows the
troglodytic existence of people who have been living in subway tunnels
for up to twenty years. Singer’s eye is both objective and engaged, and
the film refrains for the most part from commenting on the plight of its
subjects. Yet by the end it is impossible not to be both moved and
strangely uplifted.
