Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

SnoopyStyle Daniel Blake is an unemployed construction worker after a devastating heart attack. He gets disability support until a government bureaucrat decides that he doesn't have enough points. He struggles through the bureaucratic labyrinth trying to navigate a computer without the barest of rudimentary skills or applying for jobs that he couldn't take. He befriends single mom Katie who is also struggling with the bureaucracy as her support is cut.Ken Loach continues his lower class cinema with a gripping tale of a man of honor. The acting is great. The settings have a sense of real places. The plot and the turns are forseeable. For example, after Ivan gives Katie his number, the rest is a given but the emotion is never diminished. Same thing with the ending which has its inevitability. The food bank scene does take a surprising turn. Overall, this is a sad tragedy on a straight road. Daniel never loses his humanity.

Pjtaylor-96-138044 'I, Daniel Blake (2016)' is an urgent and impassioned cry against the current benefits system in Britain and the budget-cuts the current government have enforced that make life for the poor almost unbearably difficult and unnecessarily bureaucratic. It's a frustrating and important ode to the seemingly unheard, unseen and uncared-for downtrodden that make up a large portion of the population and are (mostly) downright decent people. It's also a close to the bone parable that puts itself out in the open and demands to be seen, just as those it portrays demand to be treated as people rather than statistics on a screen. It really is a moving, damning and necessary piece that finds a perfect pace and reliable realism through which to convey its timely message, and it actually sneaks up on you after its credits have rolled to be much more tragic and heart-wrenching than you first realised, expertly portraying a slice-of-life so often not seen and feeling like it has a compelling reason to do so. Powerful stuff. 8/10

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.

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.