Trainspotting

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Summary: Brash, humourous, in your face movie about heroin addicts.
Review: Anyone who thinks this movie is disgusting and "aweful" (sic) really needs to wake up to a healthy dose of reality... this movie isn't too bad of a starting point for that. Gruesome, offbeat and defiently well acted by a good group of actors, even one who needed to take the most effort to digest the content should be able to recognize the amazing quality of the film itself. This is middle class life, drugs, what it does to you and your friends. Even if most of it is moreso done for the entertainment and humour of the subject, it does happen. Bravo to those involved for not sidestepping it all and turning it into another lame "PC"ified flick about "drugs are bad."

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Summary: Compelling, Thought Provoking, and Contreversial
Review: This film has been my favorite since my original viewing. Within it, you take a journey into the sick, intense world of Mark Renton and his friends. There you find an ultimatium of extreme proportions. Choose life and become a fat, boring, bourgeois piece of work who finds himself ultimately unhappy anyway, or escape from life while killing your mind in the dungeon of heroin addiction. The portayal of their lives as heroin addicted, Iggy Pop worshipping scottish rejects is accompanied by the boring, however limited, depictions of the lives of Begbie and Renton's parents. These portraits are enough to make the viewer consider a healthy median in which to reside in.(not that this is the message of the movie). It's twisted, it's strange, it's beutifully cast and hillariously acted with an ending open and appropriate. This is not a movie for those with a closed mind who cannot accept things conterversial, but for those ready to view something different, truly original, and harrowing. If you are one of these people, consider watching it. You may even agree with me that this is one of the greatest films of all time.

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Summary: Gut wrenching
Review: I now understand why this film has such a cult following. It is both hillarious and sad, bizarre and true. It makes the viewer sympathetic to the main characters, yet doesnt't offer any romantic notions of the drug culture. It takes you to the gutter, and back again.

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Summary: The worst and most disgusting and disturging movie I've seen
Review: Disgusting, repulsive, and absolutely disturbing stuff in this movie. Feces, heroine, dead babys with twisted heads, swimming in sewers, what more needs to be said. Warped and twisted and absolutely aweful!

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Summary: guys lived the life they choosed and kidding with the life!!
Review: they choosed a life without thinking the end.But they dont really mind being addicted to drugs.they just want to have some fun.sometimes they try to give up but when you begin once its impossible.they paid their choises really hard sometimes like the little baby's death!.the only unrealistic part is the end.i think its not that much easy to give up and leave everything and start a new life.infact renton did.but of course we dont know how much he did!!!and when you are wachting,sometimes you will wish to try too but the film takes you so deep inside that ,you feel like you live inside the film and feel the pain that you forget about your wish. unfortunately you wont understand whan it started and finished,it will just come and pass by.But you will never be able to forget it!

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Summary: Different -- but wonderful!
Review: I was a bit nervous about seeing Trainspotting -- it's not the type of film I usually enjoy. However, from the very beginning, the film grabs your attention and doesn't let go until the ending credits roll. Ewan "I hate Hollywood" McGregor was amazing -- and the directing was superb. Yes, I'll admit it, the film was a bit odd....but it was enjoyable and genuinely great!

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Summary: Amazing movie
Review: This is probably the most realistic movie I have seen in a long time. It left me feeling shocked by the horror that occurs outside the white-class, middle-class society. It had a stinging bite of reality. But the end of the movie left me hopeful that good can come out of such situations. It is one movie I plan on watching many times.

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Summary: Trainspotting is one of the best films of the decade.
Review: When i first watched it, I saw a few scenes in the begining and thought 'Oh, great, a movie about drugs, sex and boose. We really needed another one of them..' But as the movie went on, I was totally surprised by the quality in which they showed how horrible heroin is, and added some humor in, too. The acting and driecting was top notch, the story line was great, and the way they showed the people who's lives heroin had ruined was exceptional. :-) Not to mention the fact that very fine Ewan McGregor was in it (he's also going to be in the Star Wars prequel this spring!)

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Summary: stylish, yet realistic
Review: 'Trainspotting' is one of the great films of the 1990s, if not for it's technical brilliance then certainly for the way in which the harsh realities of drug addiction are explored. Adapted from the best-seller by Irvine Welsh, the film makes the subject more open and available to a wider audience, looking into the lives of the four friends through humour and biting comedy. 'Trainspotting' is a film the is able to make social comment while remaining commercially sucessful. I alone would watch it just because the gorgeous Ewan McGregor stars as Renton, with the brilliant Robert Carlyle as his psychotic, violent friend Begbie. Please watch this film and give it credit for what it is; a masterpiece of our times. PS. the soundtrack album is also top!! END

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Summary: Riveting film with captivating cast, dark humor, fine music!
Review: Seriously disturbing and greatly amusing at the same time! A classic, thought-provoking, highly entertaining view of the highs and lows of heroin addiction! Worth seeing solely for the amazing performance of Robert Carlyle ("The Full Monty," "Priest," "Hamish Macbeth") as disgusting brute "Begbie." The energetic soundtrack CD's are also must-have items. END