Classic

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2004)

Instant classic movie, from the soundtrack to the cinematography. It's already a cult flick and quite deservingly so.
The film depicts the life of a few Glaswegians with a heroine habit. Pretty serious stuff. With the scenes of the injections to the tragedy in the middle, the topic covered are quite heavy and not something to take lightly. But that is precisely what Danny Boyle and the author Irwin Welsh has done. The art is to take a serious subject and without making it trivial, make the subject approachable and thereby reach out the message.
The casting was quite brilliant and from Ewan MacGregor to Robert Carlisle to Johnny Lee Miller; these are real actors.
The question is what do you remember after the movie is over. I, for one, remember the humour first and then afterwards, the awful state of affairs.
The film does not glamourise drugs or the culture. Those who do either didn't see the movie or thought that Rambo made killing seem good and fun!