Trainspotting !

Hi everyone!!!

Today I’m going to talk about the movie Trainspotting. 

Maybe some of you know this one and others don’t, so let me introduce it.

Well, Trainspotting is drama by Danny Boyle, made in 1996.

                                     

This movie relates the adventures of Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor knows for Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars), a junkie in Edinburgh who tries to split up with his friends. They are bad influence on him.

This group is marginal and addict to heroine. Mark sees his situation and is the one of his friends with lots of discernment. They commit some infraction and try to survive in a drug universe.

The soundtracks of this movie are very famous. Singers are reputed as Lou Reed or Iggy Pop and there are also pop songs from Pulp or Blur.

Moreover, there are two albums for Trainspotting, one with all songs present in the movie and another, which is a blending between songs in the film and songs doing inspiration. One of the songs that inspired Danny Boyle is the famous Passenger of Iggy Pop.

The movie received a really nice critic with 89 % of them very favourable. The adaptation the book of Irvine Welsh knew a real success. The malaise of which the young Scots suffer is painted with lots of realism. Though the life with drugs, the movie combines black humour and horror with lots of off-the-wall humour.

I like this movie; I think it takes part of the most unavoidable movies. The story has a really meaning and I like the blending between comedy and black humour. Then, soundtracks are just so cool and it takes an important place for the pace of the movie.

Hélène