The Film That Brought Us Danny Boyle

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2014)

Renton (Ewan McGregor), deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
This is one of those strange films that focuses on heroin use, and leaves the user wondering: is this glamorizing or denouncing heroin? With "Requiem For a Dream", the end was clearly against heroin. Here, it is a bit more ambiguous, because the characters have so much fun. And, with heroin today (2014) being as big a story as it was mid-1990s, the film again becomes relevant.
Regardless of message, this showed the world what Danny Boyle could do with a small budget, and it was quite a bit. Thank goodness. Although not everyone loves "Trainspotting", as a whole we have benefited from the film's success because now we have his other films, not least of which is "28 Days Later".