Trainspotting is a 1996 Scottish black comedy/drama directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel by Irvine Welsh written in 1993. The screenplay was written by John Hodge and the story of the movie is narrated by Renton (Ewan McGregor). In the movie, the young Scottish heroin addicts commit every crime they possibly can to leave the audience in shock and disbelief.
The movie follows a group of heroin addicts, so called “friends” that live in economically depressed Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, in roughly the late 1980’s. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and influence of friends. He introduces us to his oldest friend Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) who is a slick con artist; Spud (Ewen Bremner) who is repeatedly mocked and taken advantage of; Begbie (Robert Carlyle) who is psychotic and brags about not using drugs even though he drinks like a fish, and clean-cut Tommy (Kevin McKidd) who lapse into drug use. Those who know what addiction is like know that substance abuse sets the user apart from the daily lives of ordinary people. No matter how well an addict may seem to be functioning, their choice for drugs is more important than jobs, family, and friends. Trainspotting keeps your eyes following some of the biggest lowlifes you’ve watched on a screen. This film does a great job at giving an honest outlook at the life of a heroin junkie and making you feel like you’re experiencing the hallucinogenic effects. Danny Boyle directs this film very well and makes you feel very disturbed and uncomfortable in certain scenes.
Although the movie can get pretty disturbing sometimes with the death of a baby, Tommy becoming infected with HIV, and the main character R...
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...derstand what a real life heroin addict looks like.
If you like movies about drugs, sex, and violence, this is a movie for you. At times, the movie will mess with your mind a bit. There aren’t many movies out there that deal with heroin addiction. It follows Renton as he attempts to clean up his life and keeps you interested as it’s a serious topic but will make you laugh at times. The movie will make you think and is very interesting to learn about the life of a heroin addict. The movie has a sense of style with the camera angles and soundtrack as well as visual hallucinations the characters go through. However, if you get grossed out easily I wouldn’t recommend seeing this movie if you’re sensitive to stuff like that. Trainspotting may disgust you and make you feel uncomfortable but it definitely keep you entertained and is highly recommended to see at least once.
The movie is set within a short space of time (almost real time) in which we see Four of the Six active members of a jewelry heist gone wrong dealing with the repercussions of their crimes. Amongst them is Mr. Orange, or, Undercover Cop Freddy Newendyke, as he’s revealed to be toward the end of the movie. He is the Undercover Cop, The Rat that everyone is talking about. Orange single handedly destroys their operation and essentially Joe Cabot’s criminals-for-hire business seeing as he died by gunshot in the end. However the operation costed Orange his life, or presumably so. That’s something I’ll get to later.
In my opinion, this movie is boring and confusing for the first time but, from the second time, this movie starts reveal the fascination. At the first time, I do not like this movie so much but after I watched second time, I became to like this movie. If I asked
The film shows us four characters all affected by drug addiction and their struggles to overcome it. Sara Goldfarb is an older woman who is addicted to television and eventually turns to dieting pills when she becomes self-conscious about her weight. Harry is a heroin addict. His girlfriend Marion is also fighting an addiction that leads her to prostitution to satisfy her addiction. Tyrone is a drug dealer. Sara ends up in a facility for the mentally ill, Tyrone ends up in jail, and Harry loses his arm to a horrible infection. The characters lives end up taking a turn for the worst.
"I don't give a fuck what you know or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's so amusing for me to torture a cop. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you aint gonna get."
Gangsters, violence, murder and corruption !!!!! If these are some of the things that you're into, then this is your kind of movie. Be ready to watch it more than once to be sure to get all the movie has to offer because it jumps from subject to subject and can be a little confusing.
The first two movies are rated R and are full of sexual situations, pot smoking, and alcohol consumption. I know that it may sound wrong, but that is what is expected in movies now, especially when the two predecessors were full of this. In the first movie, Shorty (Marlon Wayans) is constantly smoking and even shares a bit with the killer. Although this is not okay for real life, it is perfectly fine and amusing in the movie.
Really, I have very few issues with the movie and to share them here would spoil the greatness but they are so minimal and fleeting it almost feels silly to think about. In a world of PG-13 “horror” films, it is rather nice to know that The Crazies earned its hard R rating fair and square. It may be lacking in underlying social commentary (as I’m sure the original did, thanks Romero), but this is one hell of a movie that will shock you enough, you won’t even miss it.
Juror #3: In many ways, he is the opponent to the basically composed Juror #8. Juror #3 talks about the simplicity of the case and the obvious guilt of the defendant as soon as he enters the jury room. He loses his temper easily and flies off the handle when Juror #8 and other jurors disagree with his opinions. He believes that the defendant is absolutely guilty until the conclusion of the movie. His poor relationship with his own son may have been a factor in his resistance to the reasonable doubt issues that were brought up. During his last outburst of the movie, he throws his notebook on the table and a picture of he and his son falls out. Extremely distressed, he begins to cry and tears the photo to pieces. Only when he comes to terms with this burden can he finally admit to reasonable doubt and vote not guilty.
My favorite character in the movie is Dr. Francis; the reason being that he had the public’s best interest at heart and cared for those suffering from the virus. He could care less about the fame of discovering the virus, he just wanted to what was right for society, prevent the virus from killing hundreds of people, and educate society. Furthermore, one of my favorite moments of the movie was when the CDC stated that the virus wasn’t a political issue, nor a gay issue, it was a health and human issue, because from that moment on society began to work as a group to help find the cause of the unknown virus. On the other hand, my least favorite moment was seeing how so many people were affected and died from the virus. Additionally, my least favorite character was Gallo because he didn’t have the publics best interest at heart. He was more concerned with the fame and taking all the credit than putting an end to the outbreak. For instance, during a scene in the movie, Francis told Gallo that it should be them against the virus not them against each other. Moreover, I thought the patient that was case zero was selfish and wasn’t taking the virus seriously. He didn’t care to tell the people that he was having sexual intercourse with that he might have been infected. In fact, he continued with his sexual practices, knowing that he could be putting others at risk. During a segment of the movie, Bill, from the CDC, shows how up to forty-five cases of infected patients had been
Juror #1 originally thought that the boy was guilty. He was convinced that the evidence was concrete enough to convict the boy. He continued to think this until the jury voted the first time and saw that one of the jurors thought that the boy was innocent. Then throughout the movie, all of the jurors were slowly convinced that the boy was no guilty.
This movie evoke many feelings in me. The first feelings that this movie evoked in me was disgust and horror. When I realized what those men were doing to that little girl, I was disgusted and horrified. As the daughter of a rape victim and a
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Dir. Chris Columbus. Perf. Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Harris, and Maggie Smith. Warner Bros, 2001.
The film 12 Angry Men consisted of twelve members of the jury who tried to solve a murder trial case. Trapped in a room, all men put their heads together by communicating and listening to each other. Each juror voted unanimously and in order for them to make a decision every juror had to agree to the same thing. However, out of all the jurors (Henry Fonda) the architect had a different perspective. Just when all eleven jurors had agreed that the boy was guilty the architect stood up and said the boy was not guilty. The case was about a lady who had given her testimony in court swearing she saw the little boy kill his own father. One boy's fate is on one man’s hand. As the architect tried to prove his point towards the others, the old juror
There are many positive things and negative things about the movie and the story. In the movie
...ferences between book and film are that in a book everything is in more detail and you’re informed of every little change happening constantly whereas in a movie you do get a bigger and clearer view of the situation but sometimes you might just miss out a few important bits that are told in detail in a book. The movie looks really realistic. The problem of using children in films is that children can be so naive they might not be able to handle the scenes and deliver their speech very efficiently, some parts of the film might affect them by frightening them and they might not be able to give their best in that scene, this could affect the quality of the movie. The terrible outcome that Bruno faces could have an emotional effect on the younger audience. I would recommend teenagers to watch this movie and read the novel because it is very educational and emotional.