More than a drug film.

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2019)

Trainspotting is a 1996 drama British film, directed by Danny Boyle and based on the book of the writer Irvine Welsh. The film tells the story of a group of young heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At the begining of the movie, the speech of a character says: "choose life, choose a job, choose a career, a family..." with this initial speech in the film we can also understand the idea of the search for control and something standardized about life. The essence of the narrative emphasizes an existencial emptiness that motivates individuals to perpetrate in a world where misery and social conventions can not supposedly achieve: drugs. However, as we perceive (as listeners to dialogue with the respective character), this refuge is expensive. We are taken to the gutter of ostracism, where the fissure reigns for one more dose at the expense of morality. The custom of choosing a career, family, care, etc, in the speech of this character, refers to us to the concept of a safe and stabilized life, where everything is in its place. Form this idea, we realize that the film tries to bring another reality of life, sends a message about the different about a group of young boys who want to get out of the anguish of "normality" and find something different.