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Cinemark You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Copyright © Fandango. It helps that he has a fantastic cast or Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and the rest to fully encompass their roles as these drugged-out 20-somethings. As in his first film, Shallow Grave, Boyle's up-your-nose style of filmmaking is a ghoulish hoot.
Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life otherwise lacks.
Comedy, Trainspotting remains essential viewing and one of the best British films of the 1990s. By creating an account, you agree to the The camera could just zoom in for a quick shock, but instead it taunts us, keeping the terror ever-present but just out of reach.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. McGregor gives a full-on performance, complete with shouting, cursing and screaming, but it never feels forced or attention-seeking. The first is the scene where Renton (a career-making performance by Ewan McGregor) dives into the disgusting toilet bowl to retrieve his suppositories. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.Rated R for drug use, language throughout, strong sexual content, graphic nudity and some violence Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Renton's two best friends are also junkies: Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), a snappy dresser obsessed with James Bond, and Spud (Ewan Bremner), a guileless nerd who suggests Pee Wee Herman's debauched cousin. a list of 11 images A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. I had to see what the hubub was all about. Lena Headey’s Five Favorite Films Just confirm how you got your ticket.Fandango |
It's only 90 minutes long and moves along quickly while raising enough questions to dwell on after the end credits roll! I went back and watched (for the first time) Trainspotting on a whim because of all the publicity the second movie is getting. McGregor's Renton is both lovable and despicable. Rather than lecture us from the sidelines and then show the negative effects (a la Reefer Madness), Trainspotting puts euphoria and agony back to back - the downsides are impossible to escape, and once we are in it is too late or too hard to get out.
Anyone looking for clarity on why Ewan McGregor is as lauded as he is need not look further than this film. The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.