Hi everybody! It's my first post at this blog, and it's should be nice to start writing about a great movie like Trainspotting. I like so much this film, because i think it shows a strange, special and obscure perspective about world, life and expectatives about both.
The movie was released in 1996. It's based in the homonime book of Irvine Welsh. The film was directed by Danny Boyle and its protagonist is a very thin and young Ewan Mc Gregor. Yes, the same actor from Moulin Rouge, Star Wars or The Big Fish. In fact, Trainspotting was his first sucessfull role.
Trainspotting is set in the suburban zones of Edinburgh, Scotland. In this movie, McGregor represents Mark Renton, a Scottish heroine-maniac who decided to leave his habits and re-insert himself in the functional society. He has a very special group of "friends" or, more exactly, "habit-mates", and they put some obstacles for the Mark's life transformations. In the other hand appears Diane, a "special friend", the consciousness of Mark. She appears to be the only person who believes in Mark's change.
Another actors and actress from the cast are: Ewen Bremner as "Spud"; Kelly McDonalds as "Diane"; Jonny Lee Miller (Hackers) as "Sick Boy"; Kevin McKidd as "Tommy"; and Robert Carlyle (Full Monty) as "Begbie".
In my view, this movie shows us the world vision of a hidden part of the occidental society, the part that cannot find a place in the productive machine of our industrial system. I think it's very interesting to understand drug dependence from another perspective; we don't need to talk about "human degeneration", we should see drugs like a desperate way for escape from a decadent world, a society that haven't space for all its members.
Friends, I recommend you see this movie. I think it will like you a lot. I hope it.
See you soon!
Friends, I recommend you see this movie. I think it will like you a lot. I hope it.
See you soon!
