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Trainspotting

1996 Directed by Danny Boyle

Choose life.

Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Kevin McKidd Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch Shirley Henderson Stuart McQuarrie Keith Allen Kevin Allen Irvine Welsh Eddie Nestor Annie Louise Ross Billy Riddoch Dale Winton Hugh Ross Victor Eadie Kate Donnelly

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English

Alternative Titles

迷幻列车, 定位的火车, Trainspotting: Sin límites, Traukiniu zymejimas, La vida en el abismo, Trainspotting - Din Viata Scapa Cine Poate, Trejnspoting, 트레인스포팅, Trainspotting 1, Trainspotting: La vida en el abismo

drama crime

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Review by Steve G 💚 ★★★★½ 213

Choose Letterboxd. Choose films. Choose downloading the app. Choose paying money for a membership just so you don’t have to see some fucker adding 500 films to their watchlist. Choose following a few thousand people and then never reading a fucking word they say. Choose writing “Read the full review on my website!” knowing full well no cunt is ever going to follow that link. Choose asking Sally Jane Black to watch Rogue Nation and then seeing her do a Chantal Akerman marathon instead. Choose mithering the cunts on Twitter that you can’t get your lists to work. Choose refreshing it seven dozen times in the evening because it’s fucking broke again. Choose getting death threats over your opinions on…
Review by Larry ★★★★★ 8

The word "trainspotting" can mean alot of things.

It literally translates to the phyisical act of watching trains, whether it be for a hobby or for recreation.

It's also commonly used among junkies to signal the track marks it leaves on the arms of addicts.

In the context of Danny Boyle's masterpiece, the word means all of the above. The life of a heroin addict could be summed up as the act of watching trains. You are watching hundreds of lives pass you by as the train speeds past. There are people going many different places. There are people coming from heartbreaks and there are people heading towards a new life. The addict isn't a part of all this. He…
Review by Leticia Fernandes ★★★★ 2

ewan mcgregor: choose this choose that choose choose choose choose choose
me, indecisive as fuck: uuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★½ 5

there’s a character in the book of mormon who, after visiting uganda for the first time, declares that AFRICA IS NOTHING LIKE THE LION KING! similarly, after spending 90 minutes w this film, i have concluded that outlander may not be the most universal depiction of scotland
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★½ 31

Whether it be a liquid, a solid, a piece of entertainment, an activity, we all have our own addictions of any kind. Some worse (and more deadly/risky) than others, but the fact remains we've all had our moments of it once or twice or even still suffer with them to this day.

Sadly, it's easier to simply say you'll quit doing something you know is bad for your well being than actually doing it. Because what many overlook is something that good old Renton (Ewan McGregor) points out in the film's opening sequence; for as much as people focus on the down falls of such risks, what many always over look is the pleasure most experience when doing it.

It's…
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 6

you know how you can smell certain movies? yeah, this one smells like cigarettes and feces.

Recent reviews

Review by syc1818 ★★★★★

This films plot is proppelled forward by its frantic pace and dark humour. Full of energy yet not so full off life - Trainspotting is a marvel.
Review by Patrisims ★★★★

Trainspotting fue un poco el principio de un todo. Se me ocurrió la feliz idea de recomendársela por Twitter a un chaval que para mí personificaba el mensaje final de la película: pórtate como un auténtico hijo del infierno que la vida no te hará pagar por las consecuencias de tus actos. De aquella recomendación surgió algo físico-afectivo que acabó como el rosario de la aurora y de lo que ni siquiera puedo decir que no lo viera venir. El caso: la película. Es buena, funciona, queda bien decir que la has visto. Me gustó el ritmo, me encantó la banda sonora (!!), me descolocó el mensaje y me generó una ansiedad tremenda ver todas esas escenas de consumo explícito de drogas. Un filme bastante completo, vaya. La recomendé y, pese a todo, la sigo recomendando.
Review by jada ★★★½

this movie smelled like cigarettes
Review by christina ★★★★½

thank u to the intellectual who decided to put the greatest song ever made, sing by blur, on this soundtrack
Review by brooklyn ★★

no thank you
Review by Alejandra ★★★★★

this really is the best movie ever made huh?
blessed to see it again on big screen and i think there was some first timers in the theater beacause there were so many loud surprised laughs and gasps of shock i loved it. felt like a proud mom almost

i wanna do a rewatch again soon of this and the sequel and write a long thing abt all the small details in the sequel that ref this aswell as all the like hints n stuff to book things that didnt make it into the movie!!! bc they dis such an amazing job
Review by Yelsinne ST Fort ★★★½

Chose yourself. I can reach understand every character in some way. I think Spud is my favorite for being honest in the end
Review by crufin ★★★★★

one of the best most artistic movies of the century
Review by Jes_wedemeijer ★★★★★

Woke