An entertaining film

Rating: 9/10 (9 November 2002)

having never seen a film or anything in my own accent, it took me a while to get over the novelty of this and the fact that the dialogue sounds a bit laboured to me. Getting over that, this is an excellent film, getting across no points other than the quality of danny boyle and 'dont touch smack'. The mixture of the hard reality of "intravenous injecting of hard drugs" and surreal alice in wonderland scenes such as renton climbing down a toilet. The scene where his mum and dad lock mark renton in his room is sheer genious. Everybody's felt fevered like it, but to have it discribed so acurately is unnerving to say the least. A wee note on the side, you know the bit when renton is trying to get away from his parents and his friends to get another hit, and he jumps off the wall. The next shot is of him landing at mother superiour's place like a cat. Beautiful