Choose Trainspotting!

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2001)

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a big f*****g television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disk players and electrical tin openers... choose DIY and wondering who the f**k you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on the couch, watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f****d-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. Choose to write a review about a seriously unique movie, but why do a thing like that? This is the Scottish equivalence to SLC Punk. The two are very much alike. Both seem to be serious, but both end up being hilarious the whole while. In Trainspotting the Scottish accent surely helped to add amusement as well as the amusing little characters that liter the movie. Here is the basic lot. POSIBLE SPOILERS Well there is Renton who is a hopeless heroin addict who gets stuck in the worst toilet in Scotland, that would, by the way, be the main guy. There is Sick Boy who everyone calls Sick Boy because he is, well, sick. There is Begbie who everyone is afraid off because he is the sort of person who will bite your head off for brushing up against him in a crowded pub. There is also Diane who's choice wardrobe for success is moderately skimpy little dress and a school girl outfit. There is also Spud who's brains one finds themselves pondering over and Tommy who is all good and proper but ends up dyeing (must not be hard enough for the tough existence). So there's the gang, and this gang goes on an adventure of sorts all though which Renton can not make up his mind whether to `choose life' or `choose heroin'. When he chooses, keep in mind, it is not necessarily final. A wonderful movie based on a book by Irvine Welsh which, if the first few pages are an example, is very hard to understand.