Danny Boyle's Trainspotting

Some people want to be lost sometimes. Some want to escape reality and be somewhere free.

It is originally a novel, written by Irvin Welsh in 1993 which plays as the drug dealer Mikey Forrester in the film produced after 3 years. Directed by Danny Boyle, the film Trainspotting received a lot of comments critics and/or praise. It shocked a lot of audience for introducing a new genre in film which is focuses more on violence and immorality which is, for some, an eye opener for the next generation, for others they think the film is promoting drug addiction.

Trainspotting is about a group of Scottish men trying to solve their own personal problems by using heroine.

The film started with the main character Mark Renton running with his friends and then they are introduced one by one through the use of establishing shots on the scene where they're playing soccer. I love how it clearly gave us the idea of whom to focus on the whole movie right from the start.

It made us feel that somehow we're also in heroin while we're watching it because most of the time, it uses POVS (Point of View Shots) that made us like one of the characters. We are seeing what they're seeing and experiencing it at the same time.

The movie uses realistic locations and direct to the point lines where you don't have to think what it meant, it is what it is which is a good strategy for a film with that kind of topic.

For me, it's mis-en-scene is when he is hallucinating in his bedroom. All of the highlights in the film was tied up in to one scene, the baby, the drug dealer, his parents, a TV show. It was well-delivered and McGregor's acting  was great. It helps us feel what he's feeling on that scene.

The music used in the film were irony. It opposes what's the actual scene which conveys us the message that being in heroine you can't think correctly, everything you do is heavenly even if you're diving a toilet full of shit.

In the end, Mark Renton decided to be normal. He chose life in spite of what he have said in the introduction of the movie. Heroine helped him realize to choose life, always.

To sum it up, the movie is great, the story is well-delivered, the actors portrayed their roles as if they're not acting it and it was one hell of a movie.

And here is Mark Renton's perspective in life before everything happened...