Spoilers

yea its classic friday night film time, soon to be concertation friday nights (lots of new netflix & disney plus films soon for me to see) & this week its time for Trainspotting. The film that made Sir Danny Boyle (yes i will continue to call him Sir, he bloody deserves it). Apart from the choose life, the car & the toilet scene, ive never even see this in bit, so im looking forward to it & the music & the cinematography & to be completely blown away by it all. Im ready for my 90s trip, & that was a totally intended line.

Okay so ive never done drugs (knowingly) & im not Scottish so i have no idea how big a problem it was in the mid 90s up there but im guessing it was. Because they all either spend the entire film trying to get off their heads on it & then end up trying to avoid it at all costs. Its nothing in between which i guess is the case with addiction.

McGregor as the main lead gets all the plaudits, & that is fair enough he is so good & so clever & scheming & yes it is all seen though his eyes, but the rest of them deserve the praise too. Everyone is fucking fabulous & insane. Carlyle as always is unhinged & i bloody love that. No one ever gives such a good psycho performance as that man. Its just unbelievable every time, even when you know hes going to do it too. Just gives you goosebumps.

When he realises that not only is Dianne that young, but lives with her parents & hes technically just slept with someone under age, thats fucking terrifying. But she did consent she then kicked him out & they did use protection but that whole moment is one of pure panic for him. ITs one of those oh god no you didnt Ewan. We dont see her in as much of the film as i thought we would she pops up from time to time but considering her high billing shes not in it enough.

Obviously out of context he toilet scene is ewwwwwwwwww, but in context, i was sitting here watching it trying my best not to gag at it. It is just so cringe & sickly & you dont want to watch it but you have to watch it. IT made my skin crawl but that was the point of it. Im not going to go into anymore detail about it, but its just wrong (but also right because that would happen).

What a brilliant cold turnkey effort. Again not that ive ever knowingly done anything like this but it shows the desperation as to what you will do to try & sort your life out & the stress & the pain it is to drop & go off something. Its shocking but its so well done. It doesnt hide away from it at all.

The baby death is a horrible part of the film. It just shocking & sad & you just feel for everyone but then Johnny Lee Millers performance in that one scene alone… i hope he got accolades for that (checks online he didnt) but his heartbreak & breakdown is phenomenal. Especially at a time when men really werent meant to show there feelings still, that was only just starting to happen.

I do really feel for Tommy but it was a film set in the 90s of course 1 of them was going to get HIV. Im sorry but with needle sharing & being gay & not knowing what you were doing it was always going to happen & its horrible how he just fades away & dies. ITs not good at all. & how its kept a secret too. I mean for a film to talk about this as the crisis was ending really does say a lot. IT was bold & brave in doing that.

How MacGregor always lands on his feet proves he is such a lucky bastard especially when he then randomly becomes an estate agent. I mean i know that gets fucked up too, but some on. The guy gets so luck all the time. In real life that would not happen, so many time & hed get completely clean that many times too. I mean i guess it was harder to do a background check but still. No way would that have happened to that extent anywhere else other than a film or tv show.

The getting the drugs & then the bar chat & the fight & the just walking out with the money is one of the most random act 3’s in cinema but because this whole film is such a trip like drugs are, it makes sense. Its crazy & that pub conversation about if someone would take the money & run proves that as much as they were all friends they were all just in it for survival. & its just a gasp when it does then actually happen & everyone else freaks out except for Spud bless him. Always just a passenger.

The soundtrack is insane. Its so big fish little fish card board box & so british & 90s. I was living through my childhood listening to some of it. They dont make tunes like that anymore.

Obviously it is well written & shot to make you feel like your intruding on something dodgy. The narration at times doesnt make you go urgh, it helps. It also delivers on true conversations people would actually have with each other in those moments, at know point does it become overly articulate. & then theres obviously the choose life speech… stunning. So well delivered & it will last forever & the fact that so many people try to do one & never live up to it proves that they just got it right in the moment & without that music in the back ground, maybe it wouldnt but it all just comes together.

This is good. It still just about stands the test of time. Yes there are some shocking disturbing & heart-breaking moments in the film, but unfortunately that it life still. 20 odd years later its still iconic & works & has some of the best young acting performance of its time. It set the bar very high & its only been in the last few years that films of this level have started to shock like this again. A masterpiece & well ahead of its time, but also not due to the subject matter.