alan_tyrone
Looking for something that can make you laugh, cry, cringe and feel a litt bit uncomfortable? sometimes all in the same scene... then look no further.Directed by Danny Boyle, starring an at the time reasonably unknown cast of Ewan Mcgregor, Ewan Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle. Trainspotting is set in the late 1980s in Edinburgh. It follows the day to day life of Mark Renton and his "friends" who are all addicted to some kind of substance wether it be heroin, speed or alcohol (if you are not okay with drug use and drugs in general then give this one a miss).With it's low budget feel, electrifying soundtrack and brilliant dialouge this film ticks all the boxes for a proper british cult movie much loved by a generation and generations to come.The storyline may sound poor and quite frankly disturbing but don't let it put you off if you somehow haven't seen this movie before. Because this movie hits you emotionally more than most others, it puts you into the shoes of these characters who in real life you would turn your nose up at as you walked past them on the street. It makes you fall in love with them and gives you a real understanding into the life of a "junkie". But ultimately it is about friendship, betrayal and the numerous problems that occur in your life. I must have seen this movie 40 times and I never get bored, I would also recommend reading the book of the same name written by Irvine Welsh, the book believe it or not makes the movie look tame... and that is saying something HA!Have fun watching this classic guys and remember..... Choose Life!
jay_amer
I remember I use to go to my grandparents apartment when I was a kid, and going into my uncles old room at the time i remember seeing this poster of the movie trainspotting and I wanted to watch the movie but at the time i was very young and my parents wouldn't let me watch it just yet. Within a year ago I saw it on netflix and I had to watch it since i remember my uncle having the poster. When I watched it I was hooked. From start to finish I couldn't take my eyes off of it. The story caught my attention and I was addicted. As the movie ended I was amazed at what I had just watched! It was funny, depressing, crazy! A movie that can not be forgotten by anyone who loved this movie! 10/10 FLAT OUT AMAZING!!!!!
Pjtaylor-96-138044
It's a slightly sardonic slice-of-life story sent as a super-speedy shot-to-the-veins, a hyperactively eclectic look at four vigorously degenerate, disenchanted and desperately destitute individuals who each navigate through what they've come to call their lives and somehow like it, only occasionally glimpsing it through a lens that allows them to see the filth in which they lay and the perceived perfection of the greener grass on which most others make their beds, but though the simple thing would be for the flick to focus upon the negativities of the protagonists' chosen lifestyle and to portray the quote unquote 'outside world' as the drug-free and consequently utopian society so many pictures of the kind seem to do so, it instead chooses to place the audience within the headspace of its characters no matter how misguided it may be and allow them to decide whether they agree with the actions taken as opposed to spoon feeding them the easy answers so many may crave; it's in this ambiguity that the film finds both its nuances and its entertainment factor for though it is at times an affectingly tough and even teeth-clenching experience, one which never shies away from true darkness and even some disturbingly surrealist horror, it is also an enjoyable and funny flick which finds humour even in the 'blackest' of situations, but this may also contribute to its general sense of aimlessness which does sour the piece ever so slightly. 7/10
eagandersongil
A different mood, a humor that comes from pure disgrace and is transmuted to create comic, absurd, intelligent situations, containing criticisms, great character constructions and an editing and editing that so the tone of British humor that certainly inspired the films of Edgar Wright and Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem for a Dream" - both great directors in the new generation - so "Trainspotting" has its charm. With a linear but completely crazy script that abstracts within its paranoia a story that tries to develop and hangs, tries and stops, and in the end, it walks, the lack of development of the story is compensated with a great development of the characters, the whole The main class of the film is well-crafted, even if it's for seconds, we do not have that ghost-member story, they're all understandable, with unique and completely clinging personalities and worldviews. We have the story of Renton (Ewan McGregor), an inconsequential young adult who lives a broken life, heroin addicted and practicing lawlessness to keep up the habit and life, which has a gang of friends in the best club style of the 5, we see the Dramas and anxieties of all, until they are solved by practicing a coup, reading like this, seems a drama, but make no mistake, the dramatic tone of the script is compensated by the great and hilarious direction of the film. The message here is very clear: Do not use drugs, not because you will enter a world without return, but because it will temporarily sink, and this temporary can be forever, confused, but the film explains, we also have a criticism of the abandonment of Addicted and even a questioning about friendship, and a conjecture about the importance of social contact, our character might be better if he did not force himself to submit to this contact to help his friends. The technique applied, and very well applied here by the beginning director Danny Boyle, we have a fast and fleeting assembly, alienated with a series of cuts and different plans that pass, euphoria, sadness, depression, joy and solitude, the director knows how to use in the Different scenes, as for example in the trips of Reanton, where we have several quick cuts to pass its euphoria, and open plans to pass its solitude and closes to pass the climate of its degradation, all this in a scene. Consequently we have a great mix of sound and a soundtrack that mixes from this pop to classical music, and this mix is great and talks to every feeling of the montage. All the performances here, no exceptions are wonderful, all the actors seem to have been born for the role and could not be different, it would be ridiculous to quote everyone, but they all perform completely wonderful performances. The film has problems, of course, is not perfect, the lack of direction in its script is one of them, but it is a great film, which attracts generations for its aesthetics and attracted me by its direction and performances, is said young classic.
