Excellent!

Rating: Null/10 (27 February 2004)

I love this movie very much. I saw it for the first time in 1996, in Dublin. The film was just released in Britain and in Ireland -where I was living. I remember a huge crowd for buying tickets and a packed cinema! At that time nobody thought "Trainspotting" would have become a cult movie. And nobody thought that all the people involved in the film would begin an extraordinary career -for them "Trainspotting" was the starting point, actually. See what Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller, Ewan Bremner and the others have done so far... !
Apart from that, this is an excellent sarcastic description of junkie life. Without falling in flashiness -very typical in Quentin Tarantino's movies- "Trainspotting" has no mercy in showing squalor in life and in human relationships. We can laugh a lot for many situations, but we also think a lot (for example during the overdose scene, where nobody takes care of you even you are risking to die; we have another emblematic sequence when Ewan McGregor goes away with all the drug money and chooses to begin a new life with it).
The film is also very imaginative from a visual aspect -sequences are caricatural and symbolic, they translate the thoughts of the main charachter. The soundtrack is also fantastic.