Blog Session 2: My Favoutite Movie

I really don't know if I can say that this single movie is my favourite, but definitly it`s one of my favourites. I'm talking about Trainspotting, a 1996 film directed by the English film-maker Danny Boyle. The movie is based on a novel written by Irwin Welsh, a famous writer from Scotland.

The movie shows us the story of a group of junkies of Edimburg, who spend their lives between the heroin and bars, with the only worry of, besides of getting more drugs, the results of football and other things like that. But the interesting aspect of this movie is that it doesn't present the addiction to drugs like something necessarily bad. If we compare this film with others that deal with the subject of drugs, like Requiem for a dream for example, we realized that it's not as degrading like others. But it isn't an estatement for the use of drugs, it just shows the drugs like another part of the entire life.

The main character of the movie is Mark Renton, performed by Ewan McGregor, a young man who lives with his parents and spends his life getting high with heroin. Renton may look just like the typical junkie, but he is a complex character that remarks the fact of being a junkie as a choice. The movie begins with Renton talking about the decision of not choosing the traditional life, he doesn't want to get a job, get married, have a family, buy a house, use a nice suit, have a big television or any of the other things that are suppose to be a successful man in life. He says "I choose not to choose life", and this is not an easy way to do...

Another outstanding aspect of the movie is the music. The soundtrack includes some of the most importants British artist of the 90's, like Pulp, Blur, Iggy Pop, Elastica, Lou Reed, Primal Scream and others. For this and many other reasons Trainspotting has became an icon of the British subculture and a movie that always bring you a new meaning.