Trainspotting (1996)

To me, this movie is perfection.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

DEPRESSING JUNKIES IN A DEPRESSING FILM!!! what a terrible overrated Piece of crap!!! I just wanted all the VILE JUNKIES TO DIE!!! nothing else to say????? Utter garbage & i HATED EVERY CHARACTER in the film

As a recovering addict (though not of drugs) I can relate to this one a lot more than most. Its portrayals of what addiction does to you and the ones around you, how somebody could get addicted to something so destructive and how difficult it is to get back on your feet are all real and pack a heavy punch.This is a real eye-opener for both addicts and their loved ones who might not understand what their friend or relative is going through. Real, gritty and brutally honest in its depiction of the sad pathetic life of an addict, this is one for the ages that's not to be missed.

A different mood, a humor that comes from pure disgrace and is transmuted to create comic, absurd, intelligent situations, containing criticisms, great character constructions and an editing and editing that so the tone of British humor that certainly inspired the films of Edgar Wright and Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem for a Dream" - both great directors in the new generation - so "Trainspotting" has its charm. With a linear but completely crazy script that abstracts within its paranoia a story that tries to develop and hangs, tries and stops, and in the end, it walks, the lack of development of the story is compensated with a great development of the characters, the whole The main class of the film is well-crafted, even if it's for seconds, we do not have that ghost-member story, they're all understandable, with unique and completely clinging personalities and worldviews. We have the story of Renton (Ewan McGregor), an inconsequential young adult who lives a broken life, heroin addicted and practicing lawlessness to keep up the habit and life, which has a gang of friends in the best club style of the 5, we see the Dramas and anxieties of all, until they are solved by practicing a coup, reading like this, seems a drama, but make no mistake, the dramatic tone of the script is compensated by the great and hilarious direction of the film. The message here is very clear: Do not use drugs, not because you will enter a world without return, but because it will temporarily sink, and this temporary can be forever, confused, but the film explains, we also have a criticism of the abandonment of Addicted and even a questioning about friendship, and a conjecture about the importance of social contact, our character might be better if he did not force himself to submit to this contact to help his friends. The technique applied, and very well applied here by the beginning director Danny Boyle, we have a fast and fleeting assembly, alienated with a series of cuts and different plans that pass, euphoria, sadness, depression, joy and solitude, the director knows how to use in the Different scenes, as for example in the trips of Reanton, where we have several quick cuts to pass its euphoria, and open plans to pass its solitude and closes to pass the climate of its degradation, all this in a scene. Consequently we have a great mix of sound and a soundtrack that mixes from this pop to classical music, and this mix is ​​great and talks to every feeling of the montage. All the performances here, no exceptions are wonderful, all the actors seem to have been born for the role and could not be different, it would be ridiculous to quote everyone, but they all perform completely wonderful performances. The film has problems, of course, is not perfect, the lack of direction in its script is one of them, but it is a great film, which attracts generations for its aesthetics and attracted me by its direction and performances, is said young classic.

This is by far the best British film ever made!Danny Boyle is the Quentin Tarantino of the U.K.I remember seeing this for the first time in a theater and everyone's jaws just dropped. Amazing visuals, direction and writing, especially for it's era! I have to admit though, you need to be on some type of meds to come up with this type of writing, and whatever those were, share them! The creativity was perfection. But what made this film more impressive, was the soundtrack... probably one of the best movie soundtracks of all time!Both DVD and CD need to be in everyone's collection.A perfect 10/10 from me!