Recommendation of the Week: Trainspotting
Because if you haven’t seen it, you’re missing out. Trainspotting has managed to be my number one film for countless years. Twelve really. I was that wee kid who somehow managed to watch this film without my mom’s permission and started a sprightful love affair with British film, Danny Boyle, and lets just face it the entire cast.
You know what it’s about. Now just enjoy a fun ride with a slew of the most quirky heroin addicts on the face of the planet with Mr. Boyle at the helm.
The film is chock full of fantastic lines. Opening and closing of course being the most famous, but i prefer:
“The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them. Take Sick Boy, for instance. He came off junk at the same time as me, not because he wanted to – you understand – but just to annoy me. Just to show me how easily he could do it, thereby downgrading my own personal struggle. Sneaky fucker, don’t you think ?”
p.s. if you too love Danny Boyle, check out Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary and Jasmine’s review of Slumdog Millionaire on our Main Page.
