Film Liquet on Trainspotting

Rating: 7/10 (7 November 2018)

-"Choose life"
The film is about making choices, choosing everything you want. Danny Boyle, the director, shows heroin as an alternative lifestyle, that the characters chose. They chose their life, the needle and they don't regret it. The film does not glorify drugs in any way, most of the viewers will find many scenes disturbing, dirty and not pleasant at all. It won't be easy to watch, but it's not meant to shock, the scenes make perfect sense in context of the story, showing life of day to day heroin addicts.
Without any certain plot development and chaotic storytelling, the film still takes you along the rollercoaster ride of Edinburghs aesthetics and terrifying truth of drug addiction with the help of Mark Rentons narration and portrayal of that times youth. The decision to become clean and get rid of the addiction was not an easy one for Renton, but how much your surroundings, so-called friends(basically, the only thing in common between them was heroin) can affect you sometimes and get back on the path you just rejected.
The structure of the film makes a circular plot. In the beginning Renton denies choosing life, being a normal person, he chooses not to choose, he chooses heroin. Events of the film change him, make him realise he's growing older, more mature, that his friends are not really friends and can betray you at any moment, and he chooses to choose life.