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However, its wonderful and savage humour makes Trainspotting
such a sensational movie.
It centres on a group of friends who are heroin addicts and
pretty much tells the other side of heavy-drug use, that addicts
wouldn't do it unless it was so nice!
Now, if you haven't seen Trainspotting don't think
it glorifies injecting yourselves with nasty chemicals - there
are too many grim scenes for that - but it definitely shows
the human and sometimes semi-human face of smackheads.
The cast is utterly sensational and is led by Ewan McGregor
who as Renton uses words that Obi-Wan Kenobi wouldn't say.
He is backed up by Jonny Lee Miller, as Sick Boy, Kevin McKidd
as Tommy and Ewen Bremner as Spud.
Without doubt, however, the most remembered character has
to be Robert Carlyle's insanely violent Begbie who is as far
from Hamish Macbeth as a Viking berserker was to a pacifist.
He is a frightening nutter.
The boys' relationship towards each other and their various
victims is explored well and all within stark, but interesting
imagery. Whoever came up with the pictures definitely had
a art-history background.
The video transfer is excellent - you get to see things you
never wished to see in exquisite clarity and sharpness. There
is a clever use of warm and cold colours within each frame
and the soundtrack (in 5.1 and DTS) rocks. I'd never rated
the song Atomic too highly before but it definitely
works here.
Note: the disc navigation system is not easy to negotiate
- and that's without heroin.
Trainspotting: Definitive Edition is not a nice tale,
but is a terrific movie.
Conclusion: Movie 90%
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