Spot on...

Rating: 8/10 (16 March 2009)

Growing up around addicts (whether alcoholics or drug users), one comes to see the dark humor in most everything. A pregnant girl who has overdosed in the hallway outside your apartment, for instance, has to be stepped over so that you can get to work on time. A kid born to a junkie mother just down the block is born deaf and without eyes. The kid of another junkie mother who lives directly behind you is born without a brain. Because the child won't live through the night, the young mother is allowed to bring it home. The child dies in her arms. A brother-in-law, strung out on heroin, almost causes his wife to have a miscarriage because he can't function well enough to get her to the hospital when her water breaks. Her baby is born with brain damage as a result. I could go on, but it's late and I'm not really up to this. TRAINSPOTTING is superb film-making, with credible performances, great music, and some of the most surreal sequences ever shot. And, as that old philosopher Alice Cooper once pointed out: Dead Babies can take care of themselves.