To me, this movie is perfection.

An action-packed slog

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Back home I watched "I, Daniel Blake". Quite a different film from the impression created by the trailer. In the trailer, you're shown all the upbeat stand-fast rebellious moments; you're given the feeling this plucky little man will prevail. In the film, you experience the grinding soul-devastating hopelessness of desperate poverty through the eyes of a good simple man suddenly at the mercy of a bureaucracy that's forgotten how to care. An excellent film with fine performances by Dave Johns & Hayley Squires, but not one I ever want to watch again. Just too damn real.

I watched 'I Daniel Blake' and it just shocked me how much truth it portrayed. Not only in the U.K. but in other countries also. Food banks in this day and age? What a disgrace, greed and ignorance will be etched into this era. Daniel Blake captures my mood and despair trying to compete with bureaucracy after bureaucracy, paper work, online forms that crash half way through. No wonder people commit suicide, but Daniel fights back for all he's worth and befriends a young girl with two children who's also down on her luck trying to survive. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, it made me feel happy at those who cared and angry at those who didn't.

The benefits system grinds you down. It can put you off claiming if you think you are only going to be out of work for a month or so, which is probably the intention of some people in government. So this is a worthy film to make, but the story here seems heavily exaggerated.. In the first half of the film every single misfortune, setback and inconvenience happens to Daniel, one after the other in a way that does not appear believe-able. He is portrayed solely as honest, warm and wholesome while the people who stand in his way are all mean, curt and heartless. Many of the characters seem artificially created or they talk in stitled dialogue to get a political message across rather than give an honest or credible account of being out of work.. The film and the plot really picks up as the relationship between Daniel and Kate develops - the last 15 minutes shows how good the film could have been.

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.