Made me laugh, made me cry

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 2003)

I just finished seeing this film for the first time. This film was something like I've never seen. How is it that a movie mainly about drugs can have such an equal mix of humor with such disturbing material as well. The scene where Renton is locked in his room going through withdrawl is the most accurate depiction of the symptoms I have ever scene. More so than the Basketball diaries and much more so, than Requiem for a Dream (both are fantastic movies). I have gone through an experience such as Renton did in this scene, and I was literally squirming on my couch watching this reminded of the pain of the experience. The lines where he said too ill to sleep and too tired to stay awake couldn't have been put any better. Great dialogue, and great movie.