Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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

Raj Doctor When this movie won the best picture at Cannes, eyes were raised, attention sought, and interest generated. Ken Loach at 80 years still holds the fervor of activism of working class people struggling to meet ends. Ken narrates the apathy the bureaucratic system and processes inflict on a needy person through the eyes of two characters - One is Daniel Blake (played subtly by Dave Johns) and other is Katie Morgan (played by Hayley Squires.Due to heart-attack Daniel Blake is denied to do his current carpentry work, but is fit to do other odd jobs if he want subsistence allowance from government. There starts his battle with the job-center bureaucracy and here he meets Katie a single mother of two kids (girl - 9 years, boy - 7 years) who has newly arrived to New Castle and is late for the job-center interview. Daniel helps, supports, cares and gives emotional hand-holding for Katie to settle down comfortably. With no luck going in favor of either of them, Katie ends up doing a escort (prostitution) job, whereas Daniel ends up selling all his household belonging to survive - for getting two sets of meals for him.There is a also small sub-plot to lighten up the screen-time - of Daneil's neighbor China (Kena Sikazwe) who sells Chinese goods illegally.There are many outstanding dialogues and scenes that render your heart with mushy compassion for these characters. A note written by Daniel is read out in the end of the movie by Katie at his funeral ceremony, that sums up the core of the movie - the suffocating bureaucracy.:"And I swear that this lovely man, had so much more to give, and that the State drove him to an early grave."One scene in particular needs special mention because it won the most powerful scene award for the year. It is when Katie sends her daughter to give some food to Daniel, who refuses to open the door and the girls asks him "Dan, when you came and helped us, why can't we help you back?" and Daniel opens the door and breaks down hugging the child. ABSOLUTELY SOUL STIRRING!There were rumors that government,might censor the movie and lots of media debates around existing pathetic government system. The movie garnered good support and appreciation from both - people and the critics respectively. It ended up doing very good business. The relationship Daniel (60 years) and Katie (27 years) share is the best part of the movie. There is a huge age difference between the two, and they do not share romantic LOVE, but they LOVE each other deeply, and feel for each other emotionally. That humanity jumps out alive in their characters on screen.Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty research a lot about the problems of people on government apathy towards the job seekers and felt this story that reflect so many people's lives needs to be told. It surely resonates...!(I would give the movie 7.5 out of 10)

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.