tr@inspotting

choose life.
choose a job.
choose a career.
choose a family.
choose a fucking BIG television..........


First saw these statements on a billboard a friend used for his debut directorial venture..and from there i got to know the term trainspotting or train spotting..

A movie in a narrative mode, based on a novel by irvine welsh about a group of heroine addicts and how they go about sustaining this habbit by doing all sorts of crazy stuff..Renton the protagonist is just another teen whose got himself into drugs and courtsey which his life is falling apart...He goes on from being hospitalised, sent to state sponsered de-addiction program, a gal (Dianne) falling for him, shifting base andworking for a hotel and eventually betraying his mates..

Various scenes captured my attention like Renton saying he's felling lonely despite being with his family n mates, Tommy videotaping his sexual experiences with his g/f, renton diving in the pot to search the pills( hideous), renton hallucinating after being brought back from the hospital.

Nice camerawork especially the scene when the guy is running and camera is kept sideways and then its turned the other side when its bypassed.

Fav Char: Renton
My Rating:7.5-7.75
Fav Dialogues: Lots

I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?
The streets are awash with drugs that you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all. Fuck it, we would have injected Vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal.
People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it.
The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them

IMDB Rating - 8.0

A different movie that needs to be seen multiple times to get to its subtleties...