Disturbing Yet Worth Watching

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2003)

***Spoiler Alert in this Review***

Trainspotting is one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen, probably because it is one of the most realistic. This film hit me on a personal level because a good friend of mine is a recovering heroin addict and in a lot of ways the movie mirrored things that she told me about her experience.

To me, the hardest scene to watch in this movie is the one where they find the baby dead in her crib. Being a mother myself, this horrified me. It's hard to believe that someone could be so high that they will neglect a baby for days and days until the baby dies. But these things do happen, which makes the scene even harder to watch.
I think that this is a brilliant movie, though, and I think that it is one that young people should see. Yes, it is very gritty and there is a lot of bad language and things along those lines. But I think that this movie will definitely dissuade young people from trying drugs. Anyone who sees Trainspotting and then decides to try heroin is a complete idiot, in my humble opinion.
The accents are a little hard to take at first, but once you get involved in the story, they get easier to understand. The version I saw on HBO had subtitles in one scene, I don't know if it's always like that, but they definitely did help.
All in all, I think this movie is worth watching, hard as some of the scenes are to take. It gives the viewer a glimpse into a very horrifying world that is, unfortunately, very real.