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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Trainspotting |
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Mark Renton attempts to give up his heroin habit, which affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them.
--Tom McInnes, Resident Scholar
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Mark Renton (McGregregor), a Scottish heroin addict with low-life friends, seeks to clean up his act. Things get even more complicated when he gets caught in a love affair with an underage school girl.
--Ian Anderson, Resident Scholar
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Trainspotting is a movie about life, what is is, and a group of friends experiencing in the drug culture of Edinburgh, Scotland. Hilarious, though I think most Americans will have to watch it a few times to catch the accent, and even at that you may not get some of the jokes. One of those movies with excellent lines that you repeat when you're out with your friends. Be warned of graphic sex and nudity though.
--Michaela Forbes, Resident Scholar
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The main character is addicted to heroin. The movie speaks of his addiction, and relates it to his friends and family.
--Kristin, Resident Scholar
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Mark Renton is in his early twenties and didn't choose life, he chose heroin.
For those of you with a raunchy, modern sense of humor it is a hilarious comedy about scottish heroin addicts. The movie is based on the book by Irvine Welsh.
--Grey Culver, Resident Scholar
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Set in modern Scotland, "Trainspotting" has drawn much
international praise for its power of description and episode, its landscape and atmosphere, its tonal integrity, and certainly it helped launch Ewan McGregor's acting career. The drug scene of today has never been so poignantly portrayed, with all its hopelessness, helplessness, tragedy (no redeeming values, as most know!).
The hard-to-understand dialogue may get in the way of most American audiences and the movie is not a pleasant one to see, reality often being that case. Well done in a confrontational, in-your-face manner.
--Bill Hobbs, Resident Scholar
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A story of a group of people, to whom drugs always come first. Only one of them (Mark Renton, played by Ewan McGregor) realises that there has to be other things in life, and tries to change.
--Jenni, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Trainspotting |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals stealing from other criminals
- life in drug culture
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Unclothed?
- Full Frontal
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
How much in movie?
- 40%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- seeing full frontal--men
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
- A huge amnt of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
Is this movie based on a
- book
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