1996 · drama · crime · comedy
Trainspotting
Directed by Danny Boyle1h 34m1996
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
Our read: Trainspotting (1996) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · crime · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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