Trainspotting
1996movie
Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, released in 1996, remains one of the most audacious and influential films of the 1990s. At its core, it is a story about addiction, youth, and the grim realities of life in Edinburgh, yet it is the sheer dynamism of Boyle’s directing that elevates it into something transcendent. The film pulses with energy, irony, and unpredictability, capturing the essence of ...
Predictably, Trainspotting has been accused of glamorizing drugs, and indeed the film is riveting in precise ratio to the extent that it glosses over the tawdry torpor of the druggie lifestyle. Welsh’s writing gets round the banality of drug use, and the dreariness of the environment that the junkies seek to “obliviate,” by the vividness of his dialogue—rich with slang and expletives, and mostly in dialect. Toning down the verbals (Welsh-speak is hard for non-Scots), Boyle vibes up the visuals.
