This is a British cinematic, cultural masterpiece. I seen this as a 14 year old lad here in Scotland. And it is so accurate of that time in the 90s.

I'm a recovering opioid/opiate addict and they portrayed the hell of withdrawal so well. I battled with it for more than 15 years and I'm so blessed to be sober for close to 10 years now. Even in my darkest days, I could've never done that to a baby. But I know some addicts that have done exactly that and even worse.

Kelly MacDonald (the schoolgirl) plays the wife in No Country For Old Men. Very very good actress. In fact all of them have gone on to have pretty amazing careers :)

There's not a lot of reactors doing Trainspotting. It takes an open mind to appreciate its irony, its visual genius and to stomach the uncomfortable topic and explicit scenes.

I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978.

Trainspotting was the book that got me reading again as an adult. Every character is fascinating. Pretty much all the Irvine Welsh books are great. I need to re-read some!

I always have to smile seeing "Lucius Vorenus" with golden curls and hear him talking in his native dialect. That's sooo cool 😁!

the funny thing is that when this came out some people accused it of glamorising drug use

The dead baby crawling on the ceiling followed by the head turn always creeped me out 😆

The girl who sleeps with Mark is also the voice of Princess Merida in Brave. His dad would play the Night's Watch commander, Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones.

I LOVE that scottish accent....

This movie is certainly a hard watch. It was amazing seeing it for the first time back when it came out. There was nothing like it. It is also most definitely a product of its time. Different era entirely. Notice Diane wrote an actual letter to Renton 🙂 No emails, no Facebook, no mobile phones back then 😁The soundtrack to the movie is iconic, fantastic performances by all the cast, a great script based on Irvine Welsh's book, and fantastic directing by Danny Boyle, make this one of the best films of a generation imo.

The 90’s were my favorite decade for movies. One of my favorites is the comedy Clerks from 1994. It had a budget of $28,000.

"Trainspotting" , "Reqium for a Dream", and "Spun" are the crown jewels of addicition movies.

The name comes from a scene the book is based on where the characters are in an abandoned railway station - Leith Central in Edinburgh, which was a hotbed for heroin addicts in the 1980s - and an old homeless alcoholic approaches them and asks "what are you lads doing? Trainspotting?" And it later turns out that the homeless guy is Begbie's dad. The scene doesn't appear in the original film, but in the sequel, it appears in a flashback.

I met a girl when I was in treatment for alcohol and pills, who was a heroin and meth addict. She and her boyfriend went to different treatment centers at the same time. They had a baby. She told me about one time when she and her friends were shooting up in their apartment and the baby was walking around, holding itself up on the table with all the needles on it. Suddenly, the baby lifted its hand and was just about to smack it down on top of a needle. She caught it just in time. I heard this years ago, and it still haunts me. I can't imagine how it haunts her.

This and Requiem are two of the movies that are so true to the source I could only watch them once.

I can't believe that you never noticed the "Are you serious?" line from Sickboy at 10.:40

There was a sequel released in 2017 which is also excellent.

"Giro" is the slang for the cheque the government used to use to pay unemployment benefit

I was a junkie for a while but I never allowed it to get as bad as I saw in other people. I never stole anything or did wrong by my friends. The day my son was born was the day I quit. It still sucked but I saw a lot of babies and children who were too close to it. I just really hope my son doesn't have to be as curious as I was, and my father was.

Dasha you need to react to a film called The Full Monty. It stars Robert Carlyle who played Begbie in this movie. The Full Monty definitely shows a different side of Carlyle as an actor. Plus it's a really funny movie thar you'll enjoy.

Considering you were, let's say, "slightly wrong" on your into ! You gave a great reaction to a difficult subject but great movie ... well done ... you need to watch the sequel 'T 2' to find out what happened to them over time ... great reaction Dasha

"I can't forget the fact that they are using heroin with a baby in the room" Profetic words...

Please review the sequel too! T2 Trainspotting is excellent too :)

This is one of the best modern British films ever. I hope you watch the sequel soon.

I haven't seen this movie in about 25 years. But i just notice how at 20:25 "think about the way" is playing, that at the time wasn´t a new song (but it was fairly recent), and really how upbeat it is to his new hectic work life.

love the camera shake when Renton kicked Begbie! brilliant touch :)

A close friend of mine used to sell shit like heroin and one day while we were chilling he told me the reason he stopped was because he found out a couple people he sold to died from it, he’s struggles everyday with the idea he basically killed multiple people. He’s try’s to be the best person he can be but even then he thinks he’s irredeemable. So just whatever you do please do not touch that shit with a ten foot pole even if you yourself isn’t taking it. I ain’t against all drugs but that shit is literally poison.

Great to re-watch Trainspotting with you Dasha ! you have nice humour and real emotions. x

This is one of my personal favorites and I'm glad to see you enjoy the movie. Yeah, it's a rough watch, but you continued like a champ 😉.

I can vouch that the getting smack high & withdrawal scenes in this movie are the most accurate on film, except the real ones last much longer. (Speaking for a friend*)

I love the photography and colours of this movie but yeah it is a devastating watch for sure. glad you reacted to it💕💞

6:14 kicked him in the nuts so hard Dasha's camera felt it 😅😅😅

I read the book. Baby Dawn died of sudden infant death syndrome. It's not much comfort but she did die in her sleep and there was nothing anyone could do.

As a former drug counselor, it's fair to say that your life was already destroyed long before the drugs came along. It's often an adolescent health problem. Having good parents who don't abuse you, drugs, or alcohol isn't the reality of the situation. If your parents were good, then someone around you got to you instead. Though there are some who had a good life and happened to fall into drugs and alcohol, they're the minority

Trainspotting (referring to the line of spots on a heroin users veins - 'track marks') cemented Danny Boyle as one of my favorite filmakers. It veers wildly between vibrant energy, sickening degredation, and the devastating withdrawal scene. A masterful adaptation of a powerful book (Mikey is played by the author 😉). For more of Danny Boyle's work - Sunshine, with Chris Evans and Cillian Murphy The Beach, with DiCaprio Trance, with James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson

This is one of those movies where you are glad you saw it but you never want to see it again.

Begbie still terrorizes me to this day, what a psycho ..... great acting by Carlyle 😁

Psycho Begby is a great actor: another psycho he played in The Beach was fantastic, and Frankie’s father in Angela’s Ashes were both top notch performances.

long term junkies veins start to collapse, so they have to start finding new places to inject

Eric Clapton went to the premier and walked out half way through saying the movie "glamorized heroin." Really!? 🤔 I can't think of a better ANTI-drug movie then Trainspotting. Thanks for the reaction 👍

This film came out when I was in High school and I have always loved it but it is a very hard watch. Two interesting details I'm not sure if anyone in the comments mentioned is the actor who played Spud is also Charlie in Wonder Woman, and in the club scene when the guys are hanging out in the room with the words on the wall is an homage to A Clockwork Orange another great but difficult watch

I never thought you'd watch this Dasha, it's one of those movies that's great to see once and that's it, it feels bad seeing it but it's a wonderfully made movie

The Scottish accent is very difficult to understand even by native English speakers. It is probably one of the hardest to understand accents in the world. Very impressed that Dasha watched this movie without subtitles.

This is my favorite movie and at some point I’ve probably made every girl I’ve dated watch this with me. You had much more enthusiasm than they usually do lol

I haven't watched yet. All I know that watching you tackle the accents is going to be great. 😂😂😂

Begby was a sociopath.

The song at the end was awesome. Awesome music can be a gateway to other things.

Giro: a payment of unemployment benefit, made by the government to individuals out of work. In the time the film is set they were paper, sent out fortnightly by mail, later they paid directly into bank accounts

Drugs killed a friend of mine. RIP.

A giro is an unempolyment benefit payment. At the time this was set it would've been in the form of a special cheque that you had to cash at your local post office.

There was a stage version of Trainspotting. The toilet scene on stage was wild. It was like one of those giant tube slides on stage except transparent and full of brown water. Gotta admit, it was gross and funny all at the same time. Have you seen Death at a Funeral? Thats hilarious.

The band have reunions now and then. You can catch them on KZfaq. The only one missing is the boy that played the drummer. He was working as a bicycle messenger and was struck by a car and died from his injuries. Sad, he was a talented guy.

This was the first time I saw Ewan Mc Gregor on screen. The movie is of course very disturbing. Drug dealers selling hard drugs are murderers in my opinion.

This movie shows funny and also the unfunny sides of drug addiction. In the finale there is kinda happy-end but the road was rough. I love this movie... I was 4-times in theater when it aired in 90s. But there are some movies that are pretty heavy about this theme. One of the best is "Requiem For A Dream" (2000). If you want to watch really high quality movie I recommend you to watch this one too. But it is a heavy drama... but very very good.

You, early in the film: "I can't believe they're doing heroin when there's a baby!" Me: "Oh my. This is gonna be a really rough movie for her."

Such a great movie. The toilet scene is horrible along with the dead baby. Wow! Very realistic portrayal of how drugs destroy your life very quickly.

Great reaction Dasha, this is indeed a very hard watch!

Saw this in the theater back in the day. Loved it even though I couldn't understand a word for about the first 10 minutes.

If you want to see a similar movie with young Leonardo DiCaprio, check out "The Basketball Diaries". "Kids" is also a great movie of that time.

Ewan McGregor once told a story about going through customs in an American airport. They asked him what he did for a living and he told them he was an actor. Star Wars Episode 1 was out and he pointed to his face, thinking that they would recognise him as Obi Wan Kenobi. In fact, a security officer recognised him from the Trainspotting poster, and - thinking he was REALLY the drug addict instead of just an actor playing the part, took him away for a full cavity search.

Keep up the great work Dasha!

Ewan McGregor's big break came from this film before he played Obi-Wan. My favourite of his recent work is Doctor Sleep(2019) which is a sequel to The Shining and there he plays Danny Torrance as an adult. Check that one out. Also agree with you about drugs, never got into it cause it messes you and your life up.

Another brilliant reaction Dasha 👋👋👋

Begbie acts the way he does because he's closeted gay and deeply ashamed of it, according to Robert Carlyle, the actor who portrayed him.

This movie made everybody scared.

What a great reaction. 👍🏻

Someone else has probably already said it, but the 'toilet' scene was done with chocolate, so the set was actually quite nice to be around. Still makes me feel a bit sick though ;-)

In case no one explained, train spotting is basically watching trains go by at a specific time and place

Accent? A variety of Scottish ones. Except for Sickboy, his is fake. My home town, makes me so proud.

Wow. Great reaction to a great film which had a huge cultural impact on release. I was of same age as characters and knew plenty friends in Scotland similar but I like you was always anti drink/drugs but could understand why they did. I would really recommend the sequel T2 Transpotting as good as first film not quite as dark and not as much drugs. Set 20 years after we catch up the characters/actors and how much they and the world has changed in two decades. People can be terrible but even good people under drug/drink addiction will do terrible things

Great Movie! This is such a Gen X movie... it is a snapshot of the Era!

I sat down with a bowl of beans and rice to watch this. Then the toilet scene popped on. Its a good thing my home made beans are so good(pinto beans made with chorizo) , I was able to keep eating right through the scene.😆

Extremely good movie and an extremely good book.

'how did she get into the club?' lol

Addiction is an illness. Indeed this film and Requiem For A Dream do such good portrayals. It is no fun. I'm sober for years now left all of my drugs mates behind and am even a little happy some times

I like my booze which is a drug. But I've never touched these drugs. And this film made me Sick but also impressed with the film? Also Dasha getting through it was a show of passion and power. Cheer's Gorgeous.x 🇬🇧. Edit: forgot to say the soundtrack is brilliant!

warch trainspotting 2 brilliant

T2 trainspotting is the best sequel!

The sequel is a lot less heavy and is a good homage to this movie. Great to see where each character ended up twenty years later.

"Your best friends have the video, so I guess it's lucky for them,"??? 😂😂 Dasha, you really crack me up.😅

Lol the thumbnail says it all.

You're the best Dasha.

Your assessment is correct.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a 1958 classic film ia a good one to check out.

Human Traffic is also worth the watch! 👍

Trainspotting is also British slang for vomiting in a continuous manner.

On release in the UK, there was a lot of media backlash about how the marketing and trailers for Trainspotting glorified the characters, and feared young people would think that drug culture was cool. They condemned the film without seeing it, as it's one of the best examples of an anti-drug film.

A highly acclaimed movie when it came out. Still some of the most accurate portrayal of the mindset of people addicted to heroin. Sad in its truth.

I was hanging around with some drug addicts and most of the heroin boys and girls died by overdose, some had debts that made them do bank robberies and they went to prison. I really wonder how I survived all this.

Finally time to see my culture appreciated

Good job Dasha, you really got the spirit of the movie. Drugs bad, life and dogs good. 😃 im proud of you mate 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 if these characters knew how wonderful you are, they'd never even bother with drugs

Dasha, you are a TROOPER for watching this movie without subtitles. The Scottish accent is one of the hardest accents of English to understand. And THESE Scottish accents are the toughest of the tough. I'm a native English speaker. I bought the audiobook of Trainspotting. I had to slow down the audiobook and pay attention to understand it, unlike other audiobooks where I can do chores like cleaning. I only studied Spanish but I had an easier time understanding Harry Potter audiobook in Spanish than I had understanding Trainspotting. I watched LOST with a boyfriend who spoke English as a 2nd language. Since it's about an airplane crash, it features many different accents of English since it's purposefully international. My boyfriend understood all of them until a Scottish character appeared. And he wasn't speaking as accentedly as this movie. My boyfriend turned to me and asked, "what language is he speaking?" Basically we had to pause after all of his scenes so I could re-translate 😂

They seem like real good friends right? Yeah I think the point may have been lost in translation!!

In the hospital they give an antidote

Strangely, some media claimed that this movie "glorified" addict culture. I, on one hand, couldn't stop cringing at how horrible it all is.

One of my favourite movies EVER! I quote it at least twice a day randomly. Please check out T2 as well

HAHA - what a way to follow up Legally Blonde 😁

What's messed up is the girl is actually 15 years old and the guy is 26. It doesn't seem that way because the actress was 19. The fact these things happen IRL is even worse.