Trainspotting (1996)

I've been reluctant to review this film, well, at first I think its a

shocking film, yet its also a very touching one, directed by Danny

Boyle, Trainspotting of the story of the Character Renton (Ewan Mc

Gregor) and his constant battle with drugs, especially heroine. The

film is an adaptation of the Irvine Welsh novel, yet some audiences

who have also read the book would contemplate the book being a more

graphic affair. The film starts with Renton poetically expressing how

there are two types of life, the one with mortgages, DIY,etc. and then

there's the drug route, this is a real platform of which the film

builds on being as the main narrative of the film.  The film is so

wrong on so many moral levels, but I can't help but love this film,

some say this film is all about drugs, but I see more than that I see

the struggle faced by Scottish people in Edinburgh includes implicit

pictures of Scotland and "scottishness".

The film explores the desperation faced by drug addicts and how they

will score, any means necessary, importantly there is a rather

digression of Renton as there is an scene where he is searching his

own waste to find the drugs he hid up, "there". The film picks the

characters to have different styles and qualities, especially one of

the groups, Begbie, he doesn't take drugs, but he loves to fight and

matches the stereotypical Scottish male of always being arms length

from a knife, towards the end of thee film, Begbie, sick boy, spud and

Renton all deal an gigantic amount of drugs, they sold it off for

sixteen grands, mean each character gets a cut of 4 grand, as the film

ends, Renton decides to run with the money decides to stay a new life

somewhere else, the film ends with the same scenario as the beginning,

yet as he talks about life, he decides to take the hard working, clean
route. On the whole, I find the film more of a warning of the dangers
of drugs, rather than the commercialisation of the addiction, yet but

I can't help but frown throughout the film, don't get me wrong, I love

the realism of the film yet the film does portray such a negative

image that it will leave you thinking about life, about how one bad

turn can ruin your life, take Tommy for example, his life was made, he

never cheated, never taken drugs, he was clean and friendly, yet in

the end, he dies of AIDS by taking drugs as he "wanted to try it".

Life can be unfair, you just can not be a victim. I'm rating it 8/10,

it has some pretty deep aspects of life, yet on the turn of the coin,

me being clean and never taking drugs or smoking, I can not relate to

the current state of affairs this film advertises.... Sorry Critics.