A new favourite,

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2007)

Quite frankly a bloody brilliant British film. And after the trash talking I've seen from some of the reviews, I'm appalled.
Sure there may have been an excess of swearing but in all honesty I don't think it was unnecessary or laying it on a bit thick - people do talk like that. More importantly, people do talk with Scottish accents. I've been confused in real life by Scottish accents but this film was a doodle to understand (with the exception of Carlyle, but really the whole point of him was to be a maniac so it went hand-in-hand). It's about culture people, different accents and dialects do exist.
The film may have been sickening at points, like the discovery of the dead baby and the later withdrawal of Renton but really, that's the point. It's not meant to glamorise drugs, it's not heroin-chique it's about trying to strip away the veneer of drug using and show it for something repulsive. And sometimes you have to be repulsive to show that.
It tried to show you what happened, even why it happened but that in the end it destroyed lives and people. In my opinion? It did that excellently.