Among its deeper merits is that it proves a movie doesn’t have to be mean to be fresh. Put simply, Trainspotting is one of those films that gets the mixture just right. The dialogue, the music, the performances, the direction, the production values, the humor, the shock-value. Watch it as many time as you can, you will see more and more each time.
Synopsis: An Edinburgh druggie struggles to clean up his act, while staging one last binge. After jamming opium suppositories up his rectum and ingesting heroin and other concoctions, he falls facedown into a filthy toilet, plunged into a drug delirium. He emerges from his dip and, after his body revives during a period of abstinence, hooks up with a tough-talking tart and, oddly enough, meets mum and dad. But he can’t keep off the smack and sinks into yet another big-H binge, crashing his brain and body into such a horrible withdrawal that he finally gropes toward the last place he’d ever venture, a respectable job in London.
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Black Comedy, Drama
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Irvine Welsh (Book) John Hodge (Screenplay)
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor
Domestic Total Gross: $16,491,080
Favorite Scene: Not to say the movie is downhill from here, but the beginning introduction to the movie and its awesome characters is just fantastic. The music, the dialogue, it captures the book and what’s to come on screen brilliantly.
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