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Dave Johns
Daniel
Hayley Squires
Katie
Dylan McKiernan
Dylan
Briana Shann
Daisy
Kate Rutter
Ann
Sharon Percy
Sheila
Kema Sikazwe
China
Natalie Ann Jamieson
Employment Support Allowance Assessor
Micky McGregor
Ivan
Colin Coombs
Postman
Harriet Ghost
Appeal Receptionist
Stephen Clegg
Job Centre Floor Manager
David Murray
Telephone Benefits Advisor
Bryn Jones
Police Officer
Andy Kidd
Job Centre Guard
Julie Nicholson
Madam
Viktoria Kay
Woman of the House
Mick Laffey
Welfare Benefits Advisor
John Sumner
CV Manager
Mickey Hutton
Man with Dog
Jane Birch
Librarian
Dan Li
Stan Li
Stephen Halliday
Furniture Dealer
Malcolm Shields
Mad Scotsman
Shaun Prendergast
Carpenter
James Hepworth
Shopper (uncredited)
Rob Kirtley
Man In Food Bank (uncredited)
Crew
Ken Loach
Director
Robbie Ryan
Director of Photography
Jonathan Morris
Editor
Philippe Logie
Associate Producer
Eimhear McMahon
Line Producer
Rebecca O'Brien
Producer
Paul Laverty
Screenplay
Kathleen Crawford
Casting
Fergus Clegg
Production Design
Linda Wilson
Production Design
Jo Slater
Costume Design
Caroline Barton
Art Direction
Dominic Byles
Propmaker
John Condron
Propmaker
Benjamin James Davis
Art Department Assistant
Ray Beckett
Production Sound Mixer
Robert Brazier
Sound Effects Editor
Andrew Caller
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Michael Clayton
Mix Technician
Adam Scrivener
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
John Skehill
Sound Mixer
Neal Skillen
Boom Operator
Dries Houben
Best Boy Electric
Matt Fisher
Camera Operator
Matt Fisher
Steadicam Operator
Simon Magee
Gaffer
Ellen Pickering
Camera Intern
Caroline Stewart
Casting Associate
Alison Carter
Assistant Editor
Courtney Moore
Production Coordinator
Heather Storr
Script Supervisor
George Fenton
Original Music Composer
Karol Baraton
Executive Producer
Ben Brazier
Dialogue Editor
Ben Brazier
Foley Editor
Gareth Spensley
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François Tiberghien
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Rowena Wilkinson
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Sue Harding
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Emmanuelle Castro
Executive Producer
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I'm pencil by default.
— Daniel Blake
I am not a client, a customer, nor a service user. I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief. I’m not a National Insurance Number or blip on a screen. I paid my dues, never a penny short, and proud to do so. I don’t tug the forelock, but look my neighbour in the eye and help him if I can. I don’t accept or seek charity. My name is Daniel Blake. I am a man, not a dog. As such, I demand my rights. I demand you treat me with respect. I, Daniel Blake, am a citizen, nothing more and nothing less.
— Daniel Blake’s letter
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Humanity
By
Jack Anderson 
on July 28, 2019

8
I, Daniel Blake is the story of a society that has turned into a corporation. The same movie could have been shot with a focus on hospitals, and how we are treated like cases. The humanity has vanished, its place stolen by extreme rationality. And we have become statistics. And rationality has become so fierce that the citizen have become the enemy.
Obviously, I do not want to make a general case out of it. What I am saying is that the irreversible finality of our systems is Daniel Blake, a man born before the Internet and
Because of its realism, the emotions feel true. This is why I love such films. There are no superheroes or anything of the sort. But Daniel is a true superhero. He cares for justice and has old values that seem to have disappeared with the new century. When we learn the final fate of the character, we can only feel vibrant compassion for him. When he confronts Katie, or talks about his beloved wife who passed away, we don’t need to have a complicated plot to appreciate the story. The story is simple yet extremely complex. And in a world where everything has become digitized, Daniel Blake is here to tell us to think about the status of our society. And this is the best compliment we can give to this film.
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I give it 8 out of 10. Superb.

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**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 that point outs flaws in basic establishment in society.
Almost all the major struggling juncture one goes through in the employment agency, particularly if the person was old is uncovered. Like the telephone calls responding to the recorded message, online applications, as well as meeting them in person. What we're facing right now in the world is or to know is, not everybody is a computer literate. It'll be in the future, but not now. They are not getting proper help, particularly agency treating them like the illegal immigrants.
In addition the film gets more interesting when a single mother was introduced. On the other side, different issues faced by poverty ridden small family, particularly her desperate attempt to fulfill the basic needs of her children is heartbreaking. This is not just the English problem, but everywhere else in the world. It had won several awards, particularly one BAFTA award. A good film for everyone, only if you understand the notion of the film or else will be a boring film.
While I was watching it, I thought it was a regular kind drama, so I kept expecting that things would turn this and that way. For almost the entire film, but it's only in the final stage something it came up with to surprise me. So my advice is keep low expectation and be patience. More importantly accept what it reveals than what you want from it. If you fail on that, then its not your film and to know that the only way is to watch it.
_7½/10_
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