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Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2001)

Next to "Pulp Fiction" or "Fight Club" "Trainspotting" is one of the definitely cult movies of the 90s! There is a great soundtrack (Iggy Pop, Blur, Underworld...) and there are some great actors, especially Robert Carlyle performing the choleric Francis Begbie. This film is not a conventional drama with the typical moral that sounds like "Keep your hands away from drugs!", it is more a very grotesque comedy: "Trainspotting" shows the everyday life of junkies in Scotland, but not in a dramatic or pitiful way. When Mark Renton and his friends shoot heroin, deal with drugs, become criminals or try to make their best wretched existence it seems to be so cool and funny that you won´t believe that they are social outsiders. This film shouldn´t be threaten as a social study, it is more a movie about the way of life of generation X. At the end Ewan McGregor puts it in a nutshell: "Disassociate yourself from drugs, and say hello to your life, to television and building savings agreements..." (10/10)