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Dark Days (15)
Directed by Marc Singer
5 Stars
Like a scene from Victor Hugo's Notre Dame De Paris, submerged shadows emerge from the catacombs, the place where they sleep to be safe.
The difference is that these are people in New York during the late 1990s, the subway below the streets providing shelter for derelicts, drunks, druggies and those who can't cope.
By day they recycle rubbish and that's getting scarcer as the impoverished masses above fall victim to the rat race.
Produced by Marc Swinger in collaboration with the "mole people" this remarkable documentary relates their history, hopes and fears without artifice.
Attacked by the railway company Amtrack they resist, before some are forcibly moved and some break up their own shacks to head for hostels provided by charity.
A lucky few survive. Many more will be joined by the masses mushrooming in an underground metropolis as capitalism continues to collapse.
One Nation, my arse.
