Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan MacGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller, Kelly MacDonald, Kevin McKidd
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If you despair of British films, are sick of petticoats, cravats
and all that repression, fear not. Help is at hand. The creative
team responsible for last year's Shallow Grave has now
come up with the most exciting film about British youth since
Quadrophenia. Based on Irvine Welsh's cult novel about
heroin junkies in the Edinburgh underworld, Trainspotting
is a fantastic ride and a bad trip rolled into one. Ewan MacGregor,
one of Scotland's hottest young talents, plays skag-addled anti-hero
Mark Renton, hanging out with a group of former school mates shooting
up, shooting dogs and shooting their loads. And, with that, comes
its own version of morality and betrayal.
While the film in no way conveys the bleakness of Welsh's novel,
what it does do well is capture the author's black and cynical
sense of humour. In fact, for the first 40 minutes, it's a laugh-a-minute
comedy, more Carry On than Christiane F. When it
kicks in, getting intimate with needles, a dead baby and toxoplasmosis,
it hits hard.
Fuelled by a soundtrack provided by the best of British - people's
band Pulp, ambient stormers Leftfield and a crooning Damon Albarn
- Trainspotting leaves you buzzing, high on cinema. A superb
depiction of that surreal hallucination known as urban living,
it's also a great kick up the arse for the British film industry.
Reviewed by Monika Maurer
Reader comments about Trainspotting
mike (mprobson@hotmail.com) writes:
trainspotting is a film that everyone has to see at least once. although it isn't a romatic or a pretty story, it is cinematically moving and beautiful. the harsh reality of the world is depicted in this film and it is a work of pure genius. although in my opinion the book is much better than the film, neither are to be missed. the action is mysterious and magical and like a rollercoaster ride, speedy and exilarating one minute and slow, almost to a stand still the next. this film portrays a bad trip.
federico (trombx@hotmail.com) writes:
is the most amazing, exeptional the best the better film of the world i watch this film 34 times in my life
Derek Baldwin (DJBNJB@aol.com) writes:
A very empowering and highly entertaining film which improves vastly upon Welsh's onehitwonder text. Great soundtrack, Underworld especially. No more profound than any of the other junkie films (take a bow Gus van Sant) but in a higher league because of its pace, its energy and the enthusiastic performances all-round. A pity Ewan McGregor has turned into such an uberluvvy since eh.
Bill and Ted (Email address withheld) writes:
Not a bad film, but the dead baby was very disturbing!! 2 stars if ur lucky
Alexandra Omelasz (Email address withheld) writes:
Trainspotting shows people that drug abuse is not thier choice but an addiction. It shows people the lifes of drug addicts and the hardship that follows
George (georger@operamail.com) writes:
you cannot give comments for the film or the book if you haven't experienced a detail from junkie-short pockets life style.it's a happy end story
Scott P. [P is for Proactive] (Email address withheld) writes:
Danny Boyle is a quite simply put a great film maker. Ewan McGregor is quite simply put, a great actor. Robert Carlyle is quite simply put, great at playing nutcases's. This film is brilliant, although a bit rough round the edges and tainted by disturbing images in places. The occasional humour, however dark it is, lifts the mood when it needs to be, and generally stops it from getting too depressing. That's just as well, because the story simply is. The peformances are excellent, but one must notice the often ignored Ewan Bremmner, who really caught my eye.
Rachel (Lambiozweb@yahoo.co.uk) writes:
It reminded me of my old life, with my mum, she was a druggie, and she killed herself when i was 10, it shows that he had two lives, one was crap and filled with drugs, and the other 1 was quite good but he couldn't escape the life he had with drugs, no matter what he did, as long as he was still around his druggie mates.
ghi- (lalala_darude@yahoo.com) writes:
this is great film,,so amazing !in here this film,,i want to watching again !underworld is very cool..viva la trainspotting
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