Trainspotting

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Trainspotting

Dir: Danny Boyle 1996 

Trainspotting is a fun, Scottish film about Heroine and its effects on the body, and on people relationships. Ewan McGregor stars as Renton a boy who recently has quit Heroine and realizes that he doesn’t actually like any of his friends whilst sober so he tries to get away and make a new life for himself. Unfortunately for Renton most of his friends are either heroin addicts or violent, crazy, drunks. Renton finds himself unable to break away from his friends despite his best efforts and that is where the drama picks up.

 Like a said earlier this movie is full of fun. The soundtrack is amazingly catchy and upbeat (when the intense drums of Iggy Pop are the first thing you hear in a film you know that it is going to have a certain style and tone). This is also one of the funniest movies that I have seen in a very long time the youthful, talented actors coupled with the snappy pop-culture-referencey dialogue make for some great jokes. I felt like some of the conversations that characters had in the film were conversations I’ve had with my own friends. Pretty much every conversation in the film that isn’t about scoring Heroine is about music, movies, or sports it really makes these characters come to life, At least in my world it does.