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Who hasn’t felt the same frustration, whether it’s with the bank, a utility company or our own health insurance provider? But this truly is just the beginning for Daniel, who runs into an even more maddening battle when he physically goes to the benefits office with the hope that an actual human being might help him. With his thick, musical accent, Daniel can’t help but respond with humor and incredulity in the face of such cluelessness.
We hear him first, over the opening titles, answering ridiculous, circular questions from a government health- care agent that don’t get to what’s really ailing him: his heart. The surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for. Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. I, Daniel Blake serves as a well-made work of social protest against a system that, as one observer puts it, is designed to make people give up. Official UK page for Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake'. Stand- up comedian Dave Johns, starring in his first feature film as the title character, has an everyman directness that makes him instantly relatable before we even see him. Title: I, Daniel Blake (2016) 7.9 /10.īut Loach’s film also features some stirring performances and a strong sense of place in its depiction of working- class Newcastle. Aside from some glimmers of humor early on, it is relentlessly bleak and not terribly subtle as it attempts to create an abiding feeling realism. The surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival follows a middle- aged, blue- collar carpenter struggling to navigate the bureaucracy of the British benefits system after an injury leaves him unable to work. I, Daniel Blake” is an extremely Ken Loach- y Ken Loach film, for better and for worse.
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I, Daniel Blake Movie Review & Film Summary (2. He’s a bloke who follows the rules, but who won’t comply with directions that make no sense. If you know Ken Loach (and importantly his writing partner Paul Laverty) you'll know I, Daniel Blake. Daniel Blake, 59, who has worked as a joiner most of his life in the North East of England needs help from the State for the first time ever following an illness. I, Daniel Blake is anything but, British humour being the indefatigable thing that it is, especially the finely tuned sarcasm of the eternally depressed north.