Brilliant and Ugly

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2007)

A true paradox! Exhilarating and dismal, glorious and horrifying, the light side of the dark side of life. A film filled with disturbing and unsettling images and drama, woven into a truly humorous tapestry. Brilliant performances by Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and Ewen Bremner. You will laugh hysterically and clench your eyes in disgust. You will love it or hate it or both! Danny Boyle has artfully created a comedy about tragedy. Choose life? Choose heroin? Choose Trainspotting! A masterpiece of the absurd, not for the prude or squeamish. Turn on the subtitles to decipher the heavy Scottish dialect. Watch it again and again! Beware! You may become addicted!