Trainspotting

 

 Trainspotting is directed by Danny Boyle and is one of his most well-known movies along with Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, and Sunshine and it was released July, 19th 1996. Trainspotting won many awards and was nominated for even more, It was nominated for the 1997 Oscar Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and won 1997 best film for the Boston  Society of Film Critics Award. This movie takes you into the depths of heroin addiction and many other problems associated with the drug and with any other drug in that matter.

This movie, such as in Clockwork Orange is very strange but in a very different way. This movie is very much different than any of the recent movies that Danny has done, he puts scenes in the movie that keep you wondering of why he put it in there but you know that it has an actual symbolic meaning to it, for example when Mark Renton (the antagonist) drops his suppositories into the toilet and dives in to catch them and when he dives in the toilet becomes an a large body of water, many people do not understand what it means but what you saw was in his mind and he was just imagining to cover up what he was really doing which was sticking his hand in a filthy toilet full of feces.

Trainspotting tells a story of a group Scottish herion addicts and how their lives twist and turn.The very different group of addicts which is Mark Renton, Spud, and Allison, men whose drug is hurting people which is Begbie and the clean ones, (Tommy, Gail, Lizzy.) Mark Renton attempts and attempts to quit heroin and his friends are trying to also. While not on the heroin,the group go through some tragic events that just make them resume their habit and start new ones. A massive turn around with Marks life causes him to leave his past and go to a new job in London and he figures out wherever he goes he cant leave his past behind.

This movie can be compared to A Requiem for a Dream, not just because of the drug addiction both main characters had in the story but the moral they both had that drugs, mostly heroin which is portrayed in both movies can really mess with your life. Boyle really portrays this when he has the scene then Mark is on his comedown and he is having hallucinations of regretful and bad memories, which is a very good way to portray a comedown of heroin.

This movie shows drugs addiction and friendship through drugs on a totally different level. It gets deep and dirty into each one of the characters life narrated by the main character, Mark Renton. I really appreciate the camerawork and the little things the director did, just to make the movie that much better. This is one of my all time favorite movies and recommend it to anyone who isn’t offended from explicit content.

I rate this movie 8.5/10