TrainSpotting has a special place in my heart being as it is a story about a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. What can i say about a movie which begins with a rising baritone as follows-
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.
But who would I want to do a thing like that?
I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin? "
I wish i could post a sound track of this dialogue, the first few minutes into this movie leave you wondering what the hell are you doing here. I feel no shame is saying that Mark is my alter ego.
For someone who has never been wasted the movie digresses a bit in the middle with variegated hallucinations and regular trips to the jail/hospital and deaddiction centres. To all these guys all i have to say is when you die remember you have missed out on a sensation equalling your best orgasm times 1000.
After all this you would expect the movie to be very depressing and negative ending, but lo and behold the movie ends on a positive inspirational note and a must watch for anyone wanting to deaddict (be it smoke/alchohol/hash/money/women !! whatever).
The movie ends as
So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's going to change, I'm going to change. This is the last of this sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mor tgage, starter home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the day you die.
Thats all for one big blog next two favourites are Catch me if you can and Back to the Future...
coming up in the next blog.
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I love trainspotting :)
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