What to do with the reasons when you got heroine?

Rating: 10/10 (8 December 2000)

A masterpiece, an ingenious comment on the 90's western lifestyle. Marc Renton is a hero of our times. He himself is a reacting junkie, unwilling to adopt to the modern way of living, of choosing life,and getting things straight, for no reason. More or less, what to do with the reasons when you got heroine?
He is surrounded by his "so-called mates", Sick Boy, an heroine addict and dealer, Begbie, a mean misanthropic beast, and Spud,a poor junkie who hasn't hurt nobody in his life. While the others keep falling all the way to the bottom , Renton will try to set up and go on.He looks forward to be just like us. To choose life.
Danny Boyle, two years after making the "Shallow Grave", chooses to shake the waters in Britain one more time, by directing the cult novel of Irvine Welsch . He surely one of the most hopeful directors of the new wave European Cinema.