I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
No 316 - Trainspotting Director - Danny Boyle Ah the 90's and Cool Britannia. We had Blur . We had Oasis (though I prefer Pulp - who have a song in this film - over either of them). We had Lock Stock and we had this . 'Hollywood Come In - Your time is up' rang the critic quote on the poster. The poster which even today adorns roughly a bazillion bedrooms of students and young adults. This is one cool film. From the first seconds of the film with the ' dum dum dum ' of Lust for Life playing under Ewan McGregor's Renton's iconic 'choose life' speech this film is showing itself as incredibly cool. Yet it walks a very intelligent (and very dangerous) tightrope. You see this film is incredibly cool and it shows taking heroin to be a very lovely and somewhat morish thing. But... in NO way does it glamorise heroin use. The characters live in horrible squalid squats. There is a lot of poo throughout this film. There are a lot of robberies and a lo...