Trainspotting

Here is the official trailer of the 1996 film Trainspotting.

Trainspotting is a comedy/drama film directed Danny Boyle, in the year 1996. It is a film that shows something about drug addiction, exploration of urban poverty, and the portrayals of the culturally rich Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.

             The film spins in the journey of the heroin addict Mark Renton, played by Ewan McGregor, together with Johnny Lee Miller as the Amoral band artist Sick Boy; Ewen Bremner as the simple-minded, good natured Spud – both heroin addicts as well; Kevin McKidd as the clean-cut athlete; and Robert Carlyle as Begbie, who fights with whoever gets in his way. The story just flows on hitting, then quitting, then hitting drugs again by the aforementioned drug addicts. But in the end, Mark Renton was able to live a stable and traditional life, while Spud found a 2000$ Renton left for him.

                  The film occurred on several settings, each of which having its own characteristic in the film. Several types of shot were also observed. The opening of the film showed already a tracking shot, when Renton and Spud was being chased by store detectives; high-angle shot, when Renton was looking at the baby on the ceiling when he was hallucinating, close-up shot, when the director showed through Renton’s face the effect of the drugs to him. The film’s mise-en-scene has truly made something to make the film the best Scottish film of all time, in a general public poll, and garner almost universal praise from critics.

            In 1995, Trainspotting was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards. According to Danny Boyle, the sequel of the film may be released nine years after the original film.

- ClarissaAlimot