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I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Drama | 100 minutes
3,77 802 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / France / Belgium

Directed by: Ken Loach

Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires and Briana Shann

IMDb score: 7,8 (66.649)

Releasedate: 21 October 2016

I, Daniel Blake plot

Daniel Blake, 59, has spent most of his life working as a cabinetmaker in the North East of England. After an illness, he needs help from the state for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie's only chance of escaping a homeless hostel is to accept a flat 450km away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no man's land, caught in the red tape of modern-day Britain.

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FinkPloyd

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I'm not a big fan of Ken Loach, and at the Golden Palm I immediately thought something like 'Uvreprijs', because at first sight it looks like a suit from the same cloth as his earlier work.

But I stand corrected, even more: well deserved that Palm!

The theme is familiar to Loach, but in times of Brexit and Trumpocalypse it appears to be more topical than ever... In my opinion, the director operates here as a socialist with a great sense of the anti-establishment and anti-government feelings that currently prevail in most Western countries. , and makes a clear connection here with the more right-wing voters usually associated with it. Moreover, with a gripping and fascinating story, of good, brave people who sit in the corner where the blows fall and on top of that are abandoned by a navel-gazing government. Fortunately, they can count on each other.

The acting is believable and a few scenes come in hard. An eye-opener of a film that confronts Europe with an ugly but highly relevant mirror image of itself.

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otherfool

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Horrible film in which the battle of 'the little man' against the big bad government is forced out by means of cheap sentiment. Now poverty in combination with bureaucracy and standardization can be quite a big problem, but the way in which Loach magnifies and (especially) exploits it here is literally to puke. We get to see a woman who supposedly can't spare 10 cents to cook spaghetti for herself, but who walks around every day in a cool new sweater, that sort of thing.

And then Daniel Blake himself, man-man-man. In any case, you will hate this man within a minute. Instead of answering some simple questions from a government employee, he goes about every question in that annoying plaintive tone of his. The whole world just has to adapt to him, and everyone is supposedly against him, despite the fact that he is really being offered help from all sides.

Not only that, but he's also going to be interfering with the Katie character to demand on high legs that she stop her escort job. Guy, what are you [/i]interested in [/i]you . And then that stupid ending. Cry or I'll shoot. Bahbahbah.

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Donkerwoud

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The master of British social realism perfects his craft with an unsentimental film about people at the bottom who get entangled in the bureaucratic maelstrom of a welfare state. About the loss of control and self-determination with reduced work capacity, while at the same time having to make ends meet in society is surrounded by an air of guilt and shame. Daniel Blake is to poverty in Western Europe what Walter White (Breaking Bad) was to the American health system: an individual whose actions are really not the most forthcoming or easy, but like a modern Don Quixote, he takes on a poorly equipped system. Anyone who wants to reduce his quest to a straightforward left or right story has not fully understood it. Daniel Blake is the fictional figure of our time, drowning in (sometimes) incomprehensible systems such as digitization, cost-benefit analyzes and outsourcing. The welfare state is a kind of mop with the tap open, because it makes the most simple problems unnecessarily complex.

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