Trainspotting

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2002)

I've read most of the other comments and am not really surprised to see that most of them are complaining about the Scottish accents being 'too thick'. Hmmmmm. Well, it is set in Edinburgh. Maybe i'm biased (most likely) because i'm not only Scottish but from Edinburgh, but i think that a lot of Americans who watch this can be a bit lazy trying to understand accents that don't sound exactly like their own. They immediately say "i can't understand that". I've lived in the States for 8 months now and it does get frustrating when i know i'm speaking perfectly clear English and i get met with furrowed brows and odd looks as if i'm speaking in a foreign language. If you listen to the dialect in this film, it is understandable. I think someone actually likened it to Swahili, hehe. Anyway, a great film all in all.