Freckin' awesome!

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 2003)

There are very few movies that I believe are worth something, and Trainspotting is one of them. I had gotten many recommendations to watch this movie, so I watched it for the first time. Before watching it I was feeling indifferent because it didn't sound like a very good movie, but I was way wrong. My first viewing was difficult because I didn't understand the Scottish dialect, but I still managed to tell my friend that it was significant (which is a good thing because I could probably count the number of significant movies I have seen on one hand).
A few months passed by and I kept thinking about the movie, and one day when that same friend of mine wanted to rent a movie I said, "If you get anything, get Trainspotting." So we did and the second time I saw it I knew that it was definitely on my list of favorite movies of all time.
I ended up buying the DVD because I might as well not even have a collection without Trainspotting. I watched it over and over and loved every minute of it. I would have loved to see a sequel to it, but it wouldn't be appropriate so I tried figuring out what it is I wanted out of this movie. I watched it so many times because I wanted to re-live the experience over and over again, and then it hit me. I wanted to BE Mark Renton. I wanted and still want to live the life of a Scottish junky like the characters in this film. That is the effect the movie had on me. This wasn't a film that showed me the scum and destruction of this world, it showed me that skinny sickly slackers with nothing to lose are awesome! I would love to live a rebellious day in the life of one of these characters. I may not want to become a heroin junky in the future but I would love to live in Scotland and be part of that culture.
The best line in the movie-->"So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person."