TRAINSPOTTING MOVIE

                        

As I watched the movie I realized that the film "Trainspotting" explores the problems, depravities, and exploitative self-interest associated with a group of working-class unemployed heroin addicts. Trainspotting's representation of the term 'Britishness' can only be seen as depressing, it seems that the film tries to point out the constant negative self reflection that has plagued British youths, particularly in the 1990's where heroin became more easily available. This movie Trainspotting, is a British social realist film directed by Danny Boyle. Rated 18 for 'graphic drug use, frequent strong language, sex, nudity and violence', this controversial text depicts the life of Mark Renton and his circle of supposed drug addict/thieving/psycho 'friends', leading the viewer from the highs of hits to the lows of trying to get clean, ending with a drug deal and a final betrayal.  The genre of this movie is social realist genre that everyone could relate.

Trainspotting tells us a story about Scottish underworld life.Trainspotting, is more complex than a typical social realist film with many 'anti-realist' techniques that bring to the forefront the expert process of film making rather than simply documenting reality in a naturalistic fashion.

I can say that this film has enlightened me to the craft of modern social realism and the twists that you can put upon it to make it more desirable and watchable for the audience. What Danny Boyle does is clash together the realistic 'kitchen sink' social realism and the 'magic' realism that juxtapose each other and create a unique product. The picture that is painted is of an escape from the mundane working class lifestyle, represented by the difference in filming and editing techniques. The 'choose life' line that this film is famous for is referenced throughout, with the characters not choosing life, but choosing an escape from it; much less work than changing your social status. It is a critique on a generation's mind set placed together with seamless editing and influential effects, creating a modern classic that will go down in history as one of the great social. This movie does not simply show the awful world of drug addiction, but hits the viewer with comic points to break up the heavy content of inevitable self destruction. This story can also happen in reality.