Drug Spotting.

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2015)

Trainspotting (1996): Dir: Danny Boyle / Cast: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremmer, Kelly Macdonald, Jonny Lee Miller: Stylish film about drug addiction where users feel good to the point of feeling bad. It is a constant drug high where one must eventually face consequences. Renton dives into the filthiest toilet in Scotland to retrieve pills he bad stashed up his ass. He is saved from an overdose and attempts to go clean but his friends encourage him to test drugs. Spud is timid and takes drugs before a job interview. Sick Boy makes comments regarding Ursula Andress as the sexiest Bond girl. Tommy pays a big price for his addiction and Begbie is psychotic. Gross humour with stylish directing by Danny Boyle. Ewan McGregor as Renton struggles morally even on his good intentions when theft becomes a factor for freedom. Robert Carlyle as Begbie is ill tempered and the object of the ultimate betrayal and his own eventual downfall. Ewen Bremmer as Spud avoids work and is involved in a gross scene regarding soiled bed sheets. Kelly Macdonald plays a female whom Renton encounters and has sex with until he learns that she is under age. She blackmails him and even invades his withdrawal nightmares. Jonny Lee Miller plays Sick Boy whose life choices leads to destructive and fatal consequences. It knows the highs and lows and the narrow path dead ahead. Score: 8 / 10