Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd, Jonny Lee
Miller.
Why
choose life when you have heroin? This is the pertinent question that Danny
Boyle’s classic ‘Trainspotting’ aims to fathom. Renton and his friends-a Sean
Connery wannabe ‘Sickboy’, athlete Tommy, naïve Spud and psycho Begbie belong
to the Edinburgh drug scene, the lowest of the low . Ewan McGregor’s portrayal
of Renton as a recovering heroin addict will amaze you, disgust you and stupefy
you, all at the same time. During his several attempts at recovering(“There are
last shots and then there are last shots.” Classic.), he is haunted by the
visions of his addiction-free friend Tommy, the cries of a wailing mother for
her dead child, his junkie friend who is in prison and psycho Begbie. Danny
Boyle’s direction and John Hodge’s screenplay is extremely Guy Ritchie-esque-Stark,
sharp satire with a liberal use of bawdy and crude humour. Buckle up your
seatbelts and prepare to navigate the highs-and-lows of this film. No pun
intended.
Quotes:
i) Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
ii) We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of
his habit.
iii) We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it
illegal!
iv) For a vegetarian, Rents, you are a fucking evil shot.
v)
Tommy: Doesn't it make
you proud to be Scottish?
Mark "Rent-boy"
Renton: It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low.
The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic
trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't.
They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't
even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete assholes.
It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the
world won't make any fucking difference!
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