Trainspotting (1996)

• Year: 1996
• Released: 09 Aug 1996
• Country: United Kingdom
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 23 wins & 35 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Trainspotting
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/trainspotting
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama
• Runtime: 93 min
• Writer: Irvine Welsh, John Hodge
• Director: Danny Boyle
• Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
• Keywords: based on novel or book, friendship, london, england, drugs, cult film,

	8.1/10
	83/100
	91% – Critics
	93% – Audience

Trainspotting Storyline

Renton is an Edinburgh lad with a heroin addiction problem. His best mates are: somewhat dimwitted but good-hearted Spud, also a heroin addict; con man Sick Boy, also a heroin addict who has steadfast opinions on the most renowned British actors; and Tommy, a clean cut athlete who doesn’t use. The likelihood of Renton, Spud and/or Sick Boy leading Tommy astray are higher than the other way around as problems in Tommy’s life resulting in him wanting to use are more likely than any of Renton, Spud or Sick Boy having a reason to follow Tommy’s clean example. Renton, Spud and Sick Boy often use with Allison, the mother of an infant, they, including baby Dawn, congregating in Swanney’s drug den. They also need to steal and rob to support their habit, those activities often with the assistance of their criminal acquaintance Begbie, whose violent tendencies can be ignited on the slightest provocation. Despite Renton, Spud and Sick Boy believing there is no better feeling than being high, Renton truly does want to quit using, or so he tells himself. The struggles Renton have in trying to get clean are presented. He may feel that other priorities in his life may help him, such as the love at first sight feelings he has for Diane, who he sees across a nightclub room but who may not be all she appears at first glance. Renton probably realizes that he can never get clean in his current environment, which includes hanging around with Spud, Sick Boy, Begbie, Allison and Swanney, but getting out from their influence may not be as easy as just physically leaving.

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Now I See Why

I’m an old guy. I’m also a movie fan with an open mind. This is one of those films that is often referred to by critics as being very important. When I read the description of it, my first reactions was to totally avoid it. But it has in it some really great actors and I’ve been taken with the guy from Elementary. Well, was I surprised. While it was hard to watch as these young men dropped into the depths of addiction, I began to be fascinated by them. They were individuals who had aspirations and lives; they were good and bad. But were continually brought down by their mistakes. Those who say this glorifies drugs have totally missed the point.

Choose life

Trainspotting is a magnetic, exhilarating, repulsive film based in a seedy underbelly of Edinburgh. Thieves, drug addicts and a violent type of underclass live in doss houses with babies crawling round innocently unaware of the dangers they face.

Renton (Ewan McGregor) is a heroin addict living day to day, stealing and looking for that hit. It is an empty life and he realises he needs to kick the habit but each time he tries to get off heroin something drags him back.

Renton experiences the high side of heroin but he knows the low side is too high a price to pay. His friends and associates are making it difficult for him to stay clean.

Director Danny Boyle infused the film with a kinetic energy helped by its soundtrack. It is trippy, disjointed, hip even amoral in places. Despite its cool reputation it shows the ugliness of addiction. Especially with the character of Tommy who is a fitness fanatic and clean but turns to drugs when his girlfriend leaves him and he dies a horrible death.

Like the movie A Clockwork Orange the film is driven by the narration of its central character which keeps the story together and brings out the dark humour.

I only saw the film for the first time twenty years after its cinema release and was impressed how well it has stood up to the test of time.

Well made but thoroughly unpleasant.

“Trainspotting” is currently #154 on IMDb’s Top 250 list. As an insane film buff, I have been trying to watch as many of the movies from the list as possible and have seen about 235 of them However, now the ones I have left to watch are mostly films I normally would have no interest in seeing–so at the outset, I am not the most favorably disposed person towards this film. After all, I don’t have a lot of interest in seeing a film about a bunch of loser heroin addicts–and that is the theme of “Trainspotting”.

Some who watched this film felt it was a comedy–I noticed this when reading through the reviews. However, I really didn’t find this film funny nor do I think most would think it funny. I guess my definition of funny isn’t watching people injecting heroin, babies dying of neglect and people crapping themselves. You’ll see this and much more in this film about sad and impossible to like guys. And that is why I simply hated the film. While director Danny Boyle did a good job of making it all seem realistic, the film was so repellent that I can’t understand its popular appeal. And now that I finished watching it, I am thinking twice about my crazy notion of seeing all 250. Gross and unappealing.