Trainspotting

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose wasing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing. Choose yyour future. CHOOSE LIFE.


The title “Trainspotting” comes from a passage of the book this, where Begbie and Renton (main characters) know to a drunkard in the station. They use the station as bath, and the drunkard asks to them if they estan doing trainspotting. Trainspotting is a British pastime; to write down the numbers of trains that are happening. As useless as the Heroin but aid to many to spend the short while.
Directed by Danny Boyle (on 1996) and written by Irvine Welsh.
The life of a group of heroin addicts, in the suburbs of Edimburgo, and displays the history of Mark and its friends to us. The film relates the desintegration. Mark has intelligence and he haves the opportunity to flee from his destiny, but the question would be if it really means yes to the life...


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