I, Daniel Blake

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I, Daniel Blake

7.8 | 1h40m | R | en | Drama

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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Released: January. 08,2017 | Released Producted By: BBC Film , Why Not Productions Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.idanielblake.co.uk/

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A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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Cast

Dave Johns , Hayley Squires , Briana Shann

Director

Benjamin James Davis

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BBC Film , Why Not Productions

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Reviews

BobNoOneHundred If people in whatever system, social, health care, education, can shit on you with impunity, because you are poor, sick, helpless, powerless, then they will, many of them. The people they are supposed to help are soon turned into enemies. It is like a mechanism. The personal, individual strength of the main characters and the relationship they build with each other is what pulls us through. Otherwise the movie would be unbearable.

pageyjjj This dark comedy's Daniel Blake plays the fool lost in the socialist world of the present day U.K.. Of limited intellect but a good heart, Daniel navigates the intricacies of the nanny state with little success. Ken Loach presents visible minorities as the entrepreneurial answer to an otherwise dystopian future. Will you be rolling in the aisles? Only if you can laugh at stereotypes presented by this auteur.

Ramneek Suri This is a stunning film despite the obvious political bias. Superbly acted by all it combines trenchant political criticism with folksy humor specially by the lead actor. It certainly deserves all its awards. It would have been easy to be content with simply making this a left wing polemic but the direction, to its credit, manages to make it much more than that.Worth watching.10/10

Howlin Wolf A damning indictment of a dehumanising culture; a continuous hamster wheel, purpose-built to break the spirit. It's a poor society that transforms those struggling, into statistics to be shoved to one side, rather than seeing them as proud people driven to desperate measures.I do disagree with Mr. Loach about one thing, though - it's not the people working within the benefits system that are the problem... it's the system itself. Don't attack the people who are just doing their job and trying to get by, like everyone else. Train that righteous anger on the real enemy - the government who keeps such draconian machinery in place, as part of an ideological vision, to further their own ends.