I, Daniel Blake

Year:	2016
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama
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Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	4 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


Director	Ken Loach
Selected Cast	Dave Johns as Daniel
	Hayley Squires as Katie
	Briana Shann as Daisy
	Dylan Phillip McKiernan as Dylan
Producer	Rebecca O'Brien
Writer	Paul Laverty
Soundtrack	George Fenton

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I, Daniel Blake - Entertainment One - UK (2017)

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Magic Marmalade 13th Nov 2022		Rated 9/10 *This may be either the best of times, or the worst of times* to watch this masterpiece...** ...As it's subject has never been more relevant to the times in which we live, nor more difficult to watch, because of it. It hits hard. I had it marked down in my brain as one I'd like to watch when it came out, mostly thinking it was a social satire / commentary, but it is more than this... it's a deeply tragic, yet rousing story of a widowed man who gets tangled in the Kafkaesque limbo land of the benefits system, after suffering heart attack, and cannot work. Caught between two stools of having been signed off from work based on medical advice on the one hand, for which he applies for disability benefit (and for which he awaits the outcome of the dreaded assessment of undefined (bogus) "Health service professionals" and their sterling "professional" opinion and judgement) on the one hand, but also applies for job seekers allowance / universal credit... the apathetic and indifferent system of course, sees a contradiction for which he is to blame, or is responsible for resolving. Having a limited understanding of the modern bullshit system after a lifetime of working, he of course, struggles and strives against the machine...additionally burdened (and indeed disabled, in this context) by his rather antiquated expectations of common sense, common decency, and morality in this vacuous meat grinder, all the while, he still needs money to live. There are some good souls about though, an enterprising neighbour, a kind and sympathetic job centre worker, among a couple of others... but mostly it is the friendship he strikes up with a young mother and her two children, equally caught within the quagmire of the unforgiving slough of despond, that defines the rest of the story... After an incident in the job centre, causes him to step forward and attempt to intervene on their behalf... getting them ejected from the building as a result. There is perhaps, too much here that will be too true, and so too raw for many, and even I find myself churned up inside and tearing up at a social commentary movie... (Usually I'm hard as nails, and reserve my tears only for soppy rom-coms, beacuse I'm tough like that! :) ...Overall, a sublime and brilliant portrait of an unsung, everyday hero as he battles Bureaucratic Dragons. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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