When fair is foul and foul is fair...

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 1999)

Fellow viewer tell me true, is Trainspotting a film about addiction or the self-debasement of lives fully restrained? If the latter, then no better setting that Scotland would served half as well. Why you ask? That's simple, the land and people of Albann capture the soul of contrast, contradiction, and denial in semblance, word, and deed like no other. Here the perverse tides of fate, pragmatic ambivalence, and outright collaboration conspire to defer a destiny now centuries unfulfilled. Poor thing, if you're finding this all very confusing, remember you're truly not alone as this orb is old with dark truths where things rarely are as they seem, and as it should be Trainspotting lends credence to the rule and not the exception.