Trainspotting

Trainspotting (1996)

a film by Danny Boyle

I really enjoy this movie. I really like to watch it again and remember why I like it so much. It is fun and it rhythm is great but it is thoughtful and brutally real at the same time. Real even when a guy can dive into a toilet or sink down in the floor after shot of heroin.

The soundtrack of this movie is great and it seems the images are hovering right in front of your eyes at the rhythm of the tune. The scenes are sometimes brutally tough and hard to see or sometimes funny and ridiculously funny, but they flow together with really dynamic cuts and a pace that delivers a really amusing story.

I really like the interpretations of Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle, they are amazing actor and these roles gave them a lot of freedom to play around. But what really impressed this time was the character of Diane, the school girl that was the voice of reason in the middle of mayhem and reminded me of An Education.

There is not rest in this movie, it keeps going and going and is extremely successful at delivering a story, the story of these social outcasts stuck in their reality, stuck in drugs and violence. However it saves the moralizing tones and the nagging while it delivers shots of crude and tough reality sparkled with lots of humor, an agile cadence, great music and mind blowing scenes.