the best film about heroin ever

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2005)

This is a film that did so many things. First of all, it actually told the truth about heroin. Its emphasis on the highs and especially the lows of the drug is excellent. Some of the scenes, such as the baby crawling across the ceiling, are amazing. Trainspotting also managed to launch quite a few careers. Would Ewan Mcgregor be starring alongside one of the biggest actresses in the world in Moulin Rougee without Trainspotting? I think not. What about Robert Carlyle and Johnny Lee Miller? How many of us had heard of them before Trainspotting? The film itself is about a young Scottish heroin addict, who hangs around with a group of fellow addicts. As the film progresses, Renton (Ewan Mcregor) becomes more and more dependent on the drug. After a bad experience of cold turkey, he moves down to London. Unfortunaetly he cant escape his past, and in particular one character Begby, who is, in my view, the scariest person in cinema history.