Think Ewan McGregor is triffic.

Rating: 9/10 (24 October 2013)

I never watched this when it was first released because I didn't feel into a movie about drugs in Edinburgh. At the time I was traveling to Scotland quite a bit and saw first hand how seedy the Royal Mile was after dark when the tourists had gone home. Very nearly got 'glassed' in a pub because the moron who threw the glass took a fancy to the female business colleague I was with.
Anyway, I saw the DVD on special and bought it the other day, and was I impressed. As others have said this is about humanity and endeavour rising above inequality and hardship. The setting and circumstance provides the background but this is about human well being and aspiration. It is both depressing in parts but overall quite uplifting. A morality story overall.
Everything about the film shines be it the acting, the character dynamics, the story line etc. I apologise to my American friends, but only the British can do this stuff really well, the Godfather trilogy excepted. Trainspotting, along with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and In Bruges should be in every collectors DVD collection. And as I said, Ewan McGregor is trffic.