Brilliant film - very honest

Rating: 9/10 (9 November 2007)

What I liked most of all in Trainspotting - above the brilliant directing, acting and storytelling - is the completely objective portrayal of heroin. I never used heroin myself and i'm not going too, but it is very nice to see once in a while a film which does not tell you "do not do drugs, it's evil" - but rather portray them from objective point of view - the good, and the bad. And ironically, this fact made me even more afraid of drugs, and deliver the perfect anti-drug message.
While the beginning might seem like it is praising heroin ("take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by 1000 and you're still nowhere near heroin..."), it proceed to a different direction, and shows, sometimes in very disgusting ways, how much the character depend on the drug. For example, the scene where Berton dives to the most disgusting toilet ever (while viewing the scene, remember - this is chocolate!) just to get his drug... The number of times a character states "i'm out of it", or "this is my last shot" is huge, yet they are having great difficulties to stand by their word.
Overall - the movie is entertaining, funny, and very recommended.