One of the best films of the 90's

Rating: 9/10 (25 June 2004)

One of the best films in the 90's, Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" is also one of the most compulsively watchable. I saw this film for the first time in a friend's house, when he purchased it, about 7 years ago. We were on school vacations, so for many days we had nothing to do. We used to just sit in his living room, going "ohhh. So now what?". Practically, every time the answer was: "let's watch it again". The first time you see this film, you are left with little but a big time fun (which is, by the way, not at all a bad thing). But this film grows enormously with every successive time you watch it. Every character gains substance, and you begin to comprehend the depth of each one of the situations portrayed. This movie achieves to entertain, with a near-perfect pace, gorgeous performances and unbelievably wit lines, and still manages to tell an actually very important story, to reflect the view of the world that most of the people of our age share deep inside: the anger towards the modern empty ideals and the futility in resisting them. Trainspotting is one of the key movies of our generation, a document of great value and a film that will stay for years to come.