Great stuff

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2006)

If you haven't seen Trainspotting, here be SPOILERS, so I wouldn't read on.
I wanted to see this film for ages and the first time I saw it I thought: It's alright, but i think I was just in shock. Mostly from the bit were the baby dies, though I had been warned. Then I watched it again- this time prepared, and I thought it was AMAZING! I managed to laugh a lot more because I knew what happened.
The main characters are acted brilliantly and convincingly by Ewan McGregor and crew. Though I do feel sorry for the characters (bar Begbie who gets whats coming to him- though well done Robert Carlyle: he is great in it) when Renton takes the money. (Poor Jonny Lee Miller hardly ever seems to get a good ending.) I've read the book too and even though loads is missed out (understandably) it still has the effect and power of the novel.
Overall it's a great film with great characters and dialogue. And as for glamorising drugs- if you still want heroin after this film I certainly wouldn't know why. In the words of Renton: Choose Life.