It says more than you hear...

Rating: Null/10 (26 September 1999)

Trainspotting is one of the truly inspirational movies out there about life; especially life in Edinburgh Scotland. Danny Boyle and John Hodge utilize a lot of visual humor and tricks to condense Irvine Welsh's story. Yet despite its obvious and successful attempts at humor, Trainspotting is a serious movie about friends and the types of friends you hang on to, growing up Scottish as a Heroin junkie, and the life of the lower middleclass. In Mark Renton's case, Sickboy (a Sean Connery wannabe), Spud (a quiet but baffled man), Begbie (over-aggressive warmonger)are the problem. The issue of drugs is the counterpoint to that problem brought to light by his friends. With friends like his, he could never be more than what they were -drug addicts and remorseless street trash. Ultimately his attempts to quit Heroin, stay clean, get a job, and lead a normal life are dashed by his mates until he comes up with a plan: The Last Hit, so to speak. This movie is extremely quotable and inspirational.