I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

My name is Daniel Blake. I am a man, not a dog.
2016Drama1h 40m7.7R
A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate the…
Directed by Ken Loach 21 Oct 2016 · Kartik 5, 2073 BS United Kingdom

Storyline

A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they navigate the impersonal, Kafkaesque benefits system. With equal amounts of humour, warmth and despair, the journey is heartfelt and emotional until the end.

Facts

  • Release date21 October 2016Kartik 5, 2073 BS
  • Runtime1h 40m
  • GenresDrama
  • DirectorKen Loach
  • WritersPaul Laverty
  • MusicGeorge Fenton
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Box office$15.7 million
  • ProductionSixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, BBC Film, Les Films du Fleuve
  • CountriesUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium

Keywords

northern englandheart attacksingle mothercompassioncarpentersocial serviceswelfaresocial realismsocial securityhealthcaredesperatelabor rights

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  • Reno14 Apr 2017 8/10

    A reminder that the society is made up of all kinds of people and some of them need gentle assistance.

    There was an Oscar buzz for this. Many film experts thought it would sail through, but that did not happen. Now I saw it and I think it should have made into. If the priests' dirty secrets were recognised to condemn on such a big platform, then this film deserves as well. Because it reveals the cruelty against the economically weaker families and computer illiterate old men.

    It is only this much short to be called a documentary film. I mean it was very realistic with cinematic dialogues, otherwise a documentary. This is a message film, highlights what's wrong with our system and who are all suffering from it. The actors were great and the 80 years- old director had done a magnificent job. You could watch as many films you want, but if you fail to watch a film like this often, there no meaning getting into film watching business.

    The story follows a 60 year old widower whose name mentioned in the title. As he is recovering from heart attack and as advise given by his doctor, now he's out of the job and support allowance. Whenever he approaches the officials to look his issue, they always come up with different reasons to send him back disappointing. Especially not being into the computers, he struggles to fill forms on the internet platform.

    He's very patience and following everything they have told him to do. One day he comes to aid to a single mother with two kids who recently moved to the city from London, when she is too struggling in the employment agency to get a job. So their relationship grows as they lend hands to one another in tough times. Following, how they recover from the issues they are facing is what the film to cover in the remaining parts.

    > "Listen, you know, you give me a plot of land, I can build you a house. But I've never been anywhere near a computer."

    I liked this the film, but I think it was too realistic for my kind of taste. Because I like emotional parts and in this film those parts were highly effective, but not sentimentally striking way. Maybe you can say, less music with more dramatisation changed the storytelling style. Though the focus given on economically lower class and their way of life, not intentionally, but lack of support in society, all these were well detailed. I have always supported films

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