The only reason Renton didn’t get aids is because of his selfishness. In nearly every scene where we see Renton share a needle, in both films, he always goes first, his high comes first every time.

My favorite part of this movie is that it doesn’t try and glorify or demonize heroin. It just shows it for what it is. It’s super real and you can really relate to the characters. Also the fucking set design is amazing, I love the aestetic if most of the places, especially the main drug house, where there is like no real furniture, graffiti on the walls, it just looks so good.

I feel so bad for tommy, one of the parts of the film that hits me the hardest is the "aids junky scum" and "plague" writings on the wall. Shows people's realistic reaction to someone's life spiralling out of control unwillingly

Correction: _Trainspotting_ *is* a classic

I would actually argue that what makes Renton so compelling as a protagonist is his dislikeability - he's an anti-hero. He knows what the right thing to do would be, but always puts his own personal gain first. He shoots up before giving a hit to the grieving mother; he walks free from jail while Spud goes down; and in the end, it's him who fucks over his mates. There are rare glimpses of him trying to sort others out (for example, leaving the money for Spud), but he'll always put Number 1 first. There's never a moment of him sacrificing himself for the benefit of others, not even in the tiniest way. And I think that's why he's a fantastic main character - he is the embodiment of the selfish, self-preserving devil-on-the-shoulder that I think most viewers would recognise in themselves. He's what people fear to become. As a character, Renton awakens a deep discomfort, and watching him exist is like falling down a rabbit hole of what happens when someone lives completely for themselves and with no regard for consequences.

Dammit that baby scene....will always be engraved inside my brane...

Requiem for a dream gets a lot wrong about heroin. Transpotting get's absolutely nothing wrong. It's spot on

This movie is sacrosanct to addicts everywhere, I can't think of a single truth they avoided or aspect that they ignored when it comes to addiction. In the beginning of the movie heroin is presented as a perfectly valid escape from the mundane, meaningless, and absurd nature of our reality, which is often the view of life someone has when they initially try heroin. They show how much simpler life is when you're an addict; get drugs, do drugs, feel good, repeat. But they also show how much more pain and fear this lifestyle creates, how the fear of withdrawal and the fear of normality dictates an addicts life. As the film progresses and Renton moves through life trying to be clean, the movie shows how difficult it can be to accept that a normal life is in fact better than the life of an addict. The time lapsed scene in the bar with his family particularly exemplifies this to me, essentially because he outright says it. He thinks of everything in his life, everyone who cares about him, and about how it all feels meaningless and empty, that none of it can fulfill him as long as his addicted mental state remains. I think that it is this realization, more than his lack of methadone, that drives him back to mother superiors, because it's sure what drove me back to heroin for the second time. Well, anyway, if you want to know what it's like to be deployed in Iraq, watch Generation Kill, if you want to feel the madness of the Vietnam War, watch Apocalypse Now, and if you want to know what being addicted to heroin feels like, watch Trainspotting (All of this is just my opinion based on my own experience with heroin addiction, and god damn to peoples introductions, experiences and outcomes vary.)

This is without a doubt the best discussion of Trainspotting that I've ever heard. Brilliant. Please make an expanded version, as you alluded to. In 15-20 years, Trainspotting will be on most critics' top 10 lists. Both movies are in my top ten, waiting about 15-20 years for T3...

Why are people comparing this to Requim for a Dream? Just because they have drugs in them doesn't mean you absolutely have to compare them. You wouldn't compare the Green Mile to Shawshank just because its prison related. Yes Trainspotting is awesome, but if you haven't seen Requim for a Dream, I suggest you do, because it's also awesome, and it's absolutely nothing like Trainspotting. You can't even compare them really, it has a totally different feel to it.

A magnificent soundtrack never hurts either.

You can't compare Rentons morality to his mates you can only hear Rents THOUGHTS.

I wish Kurt Cobain had lived long enough to see this movie!

Trainspotting 2's timing was perfect! I love watching both, back-to-back.

Sick boy never lied to himself. Sick boy is immaculate conception

My absolute favourite film by far. The idea of making a film about junkies so energetic and fun is just mind blowing. And I can safely say, despite taking an assortment of recreational drugs during my 29 years on this earth, I have never tried ‘skag’ thanks to this movie 👌

Holy shit the analysis of the football match at the start is astounding ! Everytime i saw that i was wondering what the significance of the expressions were, but could never work it out, and it never crossed my mind to look into it,or think there was something more to it. Amazing analogy ,,,!!

Well, I dunno where to start. I have soo much to say. I'm here after finished the book and watched this second time. And I can finally found my favorite movie. Don't misunderstood I still have favorite directors and sort of thing but this movie feels different even I watched second. It wants to show and think about a lot of things. Like friends, the meaning of drug and sort of things. But the most important thing. This movie and book wants to think about real life from us. It wants to show us what is living life, not choosing. Still hugging life even all matters. It also shows how people living and dying with world things. How people make their life goals to world things. Also both either are not praising or humiliating drugs. It shows what it is, the good sides and bad sides of drugs. Other than that, all the cinematoghraphy, (specially) musics, screenplay and all other things are soo goes well with theme and plot. I'm listening 2 or 3 song on my usual life but I think it goes more. Also after my first watch I was got myself into electronic music more and more. I just love this universe. Book + movie, both of these. Also cinematography is very well with theme. Finally the screenplay is soo great and goes mostly with book. If I saw true in one part the plot is goes away from book but it comes back a little time later. Also it connets wiyh book again smoothly. So you can read the book or watch the movie. The book have some extra stories and a little extra characters but they usually not soo important. I just frickin' love Trainspotting. With everything. If I have a chance to visit England and Scotland on future, I'll definately visit Edinbrugh. Well for now, it's time to pass second movie and book.

Underworld makes this movie more magical!!!!!

These kind of observations I wish I learnt about in school

when i first saw it after a former co-worker recommended it some years before , it did make my day

100% Classic movie - there are so many best scenes, so many amazingly put together juxtapositions of music and action.

Thanks! A lot of little details I've never noticed.

Just so you know, it's pronounced Edinburra not Edinburg even though it is spelt Edinburgh. Very nice video though.

Im so inspired by trainspotting, and im in school now for a screenwriters class thank you

Great analysis. What a film. What a book. Perfection? Almost.

You used that music from the withdrawal. Such a great beat.

Soundtrack to this movie is phenomenal do do dou do do dorou

Great video, really ! But I just have a little issue with it, at 7:04 "Danny Boyle is fantastic at using the soundtrack to simulate the pumped up feel of being high"... But uhm, as far as I know heroin does exactly the opposite of getting you pumped up, heroin is a downer. I think the "pumped up" feel comes from the fact that they stole something and they are running from security.

As a recovering junky this movie gets the little things right

incredible video!

I was so hoping that T2 would be Porno, which is one of my favourite novels of all time. I can see how it would have been harder to shoehorn Porno into the two hour traffic of a movie, but still. Twenty years older and wiser, they should have been able to incorporate more of the book.

Does Renton ever face up to his own selfishness. This is shown twice in the baby Dawn scene, not only are his only words of solace an offer to shoot up, but he also carefully looks for his own works. Then of course, there is the ending.

great film, sequel was good but wouldn't stand on its own. It's a shame irvine welsh's other work didnt transfer well to the film. Ecstasy didnt know where it wanted to go and had an unlikeable lead. The acid house had potential but the low budget prevented it from shining.

The first film is a masterpiece and force of nature. I thought the sequel was very underwhelming in comparison.

wish i could go 10 years back to being in high school and watching this for the first time and then the second and third and my god, so many more times.

man, I really love Trainspotting. After the first time I saw it, I rewatched it every day for the next 2 weeks. But...regarding the sequel, I think they should have listened to Sick boy when he said `Well, at one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone forever. All walks of life...` i don`t even want to see T2...just the thought of it makes me vomit...but for T1..well that piece of cinema will always be special for me

Good video, subbed.👍

Cropped top looms like either dianes top or something he owned as a child and never got rid of, maybe holding onto his childhood before his heroin addiction?

Very good video!

Same something! I'm fixing up!

Im glad that i found this movie🙂

I think the main theme is Trust as it is the only theme that appears thought the film

Tommy does do drugs, just not heroin. He likes speed n mdma

what is the backing track @ 3:12 and in much of the video? Great video btw

classic!

God do I miss the 90’s.

Rentons family life is a lot darker in the book, if you read it you know what I’m talking about.

If the cars were from 2019 this film would be of today, Do you know why its called TRAINSPOTTING, the writer was in an abandoned train station waiting to meet his score, and he bumped in to his alcoholic homeless dad, the son said "dad what are you doing here" the dad replied "trainspotting" . . . "And what are you doing here son" . . ."waiting for a train" replied the son, I don't know if that's true but it's a damn good story and who am I to let the truth spoil a good story, everyone has been telling me that for over 50 years now,

I couldn't tell by your accent whether you were american or not until I heard you pronounce Edinburgh

This is ace

What’s the first tune of this video?

Love trainspotting but drugstore cowboy kicks all junk films to bits. Best movie ever bout dope fiends

1:19 Sorry, it's far more than twice. Off the top of my head: during the intro, then with the suppositories, then immediately after with the 'last hit', after the hike, after the baby dies, the overdose (plus the mention of the methadone), testing the batch they're going to sell, and on the coach. He doesn't quit heroin for good. Tommy also tries drugs and gets HIV. It honestly just seems like you've watched a censored version of the film.

Song at the beginning????

Trainspotting Is truth ,I’ve been there ,I know

I wish they showed more of Sick Boy's womanizing in the film. In the book, he's shown to be incapable of relating to any woman expect maybe his family members on a sexual level, and even pimps out underage girls to maintain his junk habit. Sexual addiction, not his faux-intellectualism, was his main vice.

Step 1: Be a good writer Well shit...

i watched this film, but never saw anything about trains

EDINBURGE lol

people still living life of a trainspotter...drugs death n bathgate

I for one will go out on a limb and say not only does Requiem for a Dream sucks, but that it shouldn’t even be compared to the masterpiece that is Trainspotting. Requiem for a Dream wasn’t a good movie that happened to be dark, it was a sloppy, one-note film that was dark because Aronofsky can’t successfully juggle a multitude of emotions in order to truly dramatize a singular emotion. It’s crap and simple people gravitate toward it thinking it’s intellectual. Like I said, Trainspotting is literally a flawless work which is extremely rare to find in the arts. Trainspotting 2 on the other hand had some good moments but overall, the film was contrived and lacking the rawness, intensity, timeliness and most important, the superior execution of the original. It’s basically a pedestrian work with moments of inspiration.

I wouldn't call Begbie an alpha male. It's the opposite.

Four mins in.... Is this just a story synopsis?

I disagree with you about how we root for Rent Boy because he tries to “better himself”…. you have to remember Renton is an unreliable narrator in, and the truth is we root for him because he’s genuine and charming because Ewan McGregor is so damn charismatic. In the hands of any other actor? We would’ve all hated Renton with a passion, but they got the perfect actor for the job but let’s be real here… He’s a grade a piece of garbage. There’s many examples of that through the movie the biggest example I can think of is Tommy… He flat out, ruined Tommy s life in such a casual way… He steals Tommy’s sex tape and never owns up to it, which started Tommy’s downfall then when he goes to Renton for comfort what does he do? Get him hooked on H knowing full well, the hell he’s about to walk into, Mark Renton is really kind of a Mack truck steam rolling his way through the movie and destroying everything in its path. than Francis Bagby even because he’s just as destructive S, Francis or more he’s just more subtle about it. And it’s scary because they got it so on point. Unfortunately, I’ve lived in this world and I know people like Mark Retton, they are the absolute worst, not all junkies like that. Some of them are like spud, but the Renton’s are the worst because they’re so selfish and they are the ones that give addicts a bad name. But yet we still root for him, which just shows you how f’d up people are lol.

Enthralled thousands?. LOL.

Custom fuckin design

T2 was FUCKING SHITE man. How'd they fuck that film up SOOOO much. NEVER been disappointed by a sequel so much in my life. The most boring fucking film ever.

What an inaccurate review. You'd think he'd take it down after the second movie.

Who needs a sequel when you have heroin 👀

Your so wrong. You need to be born and have grown up in the 70s 80s 90s in Scotland to fully understand it.

One thing lets it down is the cheap montage London scene with buses and people waving like a cheap advert for London tourism . Once seen can't be unseen btw ....sorry.

You don’t have a clue mate

Tried to watch part 2 a few times. Cant get through it. Horrible film. So boring.

Overrated movie.