Thoughts on the movie: Trainspotting
 

I just saw this movie for the 1st time and I want to hear yr guys thoughts on it. I found it to be a well-portrayed insight into the herion sub-culture of the 90s. I just wanted to hear other opinions and no one else I know has seen it.

Saw it, like it a lot. Have you read the book? The book is weird because even though its written in first person all the main characters are speaking in thier point of view at diffent points in the novel. I guess when it was time to do the movie they figured they better have it be one character's point of view, and of course that ended up being Renton.

I haven't read the book, I will pick it up when I find it. But I did read today that the book is written in many different narratives, kinda like short-storys, and some are in phonetic Scottish dialect, but I'm always up for a challenge.

But beware though, I've got Glue by Irvine Welsh and the dialoges are written in scottish slang, really hard to figure it out the first reads

Irvine Welsh is not an easy read, but he's really cool. I got my practice reading "A ClockWork Orange", damn those english/scottish writers and thier slang, might as well read a book in Portuguese. Anyways, yeah, besides "Trainspotting", I've read "Filth", "Marabou Stork Nightmares", and "Porno", the sequel to "Trainspotting".

excellent film from what i remember and I never got how it glamourised heroin, seeing babies climbing up your wall is not glamourous

Yeah, I'd read that it got kinda a bad rap for "glorifiying" herion. It doesn't do that at all. It shows the "junkies" at their very lowest and most pathetic and the aftermath of the use of herion. Also, the spreading of AIDS.

It is pretty anti-heroin in my opinion.

It's more pro-theft than it is pro-herion.

Definitely. Although if I were in the same situation, I'd do the same thing. His future with those guys was pretty bad.

Now that you say it, all I'm gonna be singing all night is "Lust for life" . But I heard he has another movie about porn I think? Something with pig or pork or soemthing? Am I totally off, imagining this?

Good movie....I love when Perfect Day kicks in.

I saw it so many times on the sundance channel or ifc can't remember, but it is a very good movie. I liked it a lot.

it was ok-- fun, funny, some parts hard to stomach, & great soundtrack

when spud shits himself is just fucking priceless

I"m reading the book right now! NEato, i'm right before the chapter where begbie throws a glass in a pub. Hell yes

great movie. i live near edinburgh so i enjoy irvine welsh books and the film adaptations are spot on. i can see how non-scots might struggle with the colloquial dialect mind... you should check out Ecstasy... short stories... very funny...

i had read the book before (in dutch of course, im not a native english speaker so scottish dialect woul be the same as chinese for me) and saw the movie a week ago or something.. i think the movie is as good as the book :) the book is written in a great way, and the movie is visually beautiful.

i think they did a good job of pulling the movie together coherently from the book but i still think most of the funniest moments were left out of the film - ie beggbie meeting keith chegwin at the grand national. Also it came out in the nineties but is actually set in the mid to late eighies, hence the clothes and boom time london.