A very well made film

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2017)

Movies about drugs are always interesting to me. Being a pretty straight up person I've had little dealings with them in my life, and so find the subject matter quite fascinating. My favourite film to this day is 'Requiem for a Dream'. 'Trainspotting' is quite different to that film in a lot of ways, it's a comedy for one, but it also bears a lot of similarities. In fact almost every drug-based film seems to carry the same message (at least to me) and that is stay the hell away from them.
The film works on two levels. Firstly, as a comedy. It is genuinely funny and had me in hysterics in two particular scenes. It is rare for a film to do this to me once, let alone twice. Also it works as a drama. The subject matter is heavy (at times very much so) and a brilliant acting display from the entire cast makes it work perfectly. As someone pointed out, and I tend to agree with, it never really feels like a movie. It feels like you are just a fly on the wall watching some very messed up people go about their lives.
A sequel to this film has just come out and I will be very interested to see it. The film has a very open ending, that you would almost never see in cinema anymore, which will make it very interesting to see where things go to in the sequel. 'Trainspotting' is a very good film that hasn't aged badly at all, and in fact would put most modern films to shame with the class it is made with.