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…

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…

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…

Film #69 of Project 90

”Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?”

Trainspotting is the definition of the word crazy, like its protagonists Danny Boyle’s wild, uproarious and super-dynamic film is shooting heroine all the time. With a central character who can’t control his juvenile impulsiveness, a screenplay full of unforgettable little moments (“My pleasure in other people's leisure!”), a soundtrack to die for and Danny Boyle’s reckless visual style Trainspotting is one of those culturally significant films that changes the medium forever and manages to modify the way we approach movies, it is a movie that captures the spirit of a specific time and place perfectly, a cult, or a modern classic if you like.

Danny Boyle’s film is…

The characters featured in Trainspotting, Renton and his squad of depraved Scots don't ask for our sympathy. Boyle does not want us to feel for them, for us to root for their rehabilitation and recovery. We are supposed to hate them, supposed to malign them for their defying of nearly every societal convention. We watch them like animals in a zoo, viewing their world as something entirely separate from our own. As the film progresses, as these characters wreck themselves further and further beyond repair, Boyle playfully toys with that comforting detachment.

Choose life.

I've had the poster for this film on my wall for years. The poster with the extended quote, choose this, choose that; listing off items, habits…