Comment on "Guessing the Train"

Issac 2021-10-19 09:47:32

I can’t tell why I like this movie. I watched it over and over again... It’s been a

long time, but I clearly remember the words Diana started when Mark and Diana met. Mark, who was about to give up, stood on the side of the road in a daze. , Looking at Diana in the taxi, the driver asked "Do you want to get in the car?" Mark recovered and jumped into the taxi. He kissed Diana passionately...

That scene, with the strong rhythm. The music has always moved me.


Later Mark fell into a coma after taking too much drugs. The owner of the drug store dragged him into a taxi. The taxi driver threw him in front of the hospital. The people in the hospital used a stretcher to carry him in for rescue. The camera used Mark’s perspective. Let us see that the world is shrinking, and the body is falling...At that time, I thought that I was almost unconscious, and followed him, sinking, sinking, bottomless...I was tired and tired, and I wanted to be so. Close your eyes, let the world in front of you follow the line of sight, shrink and disappear...

When Mark was rescued, his world opened a door, and he saw the light again.

His parents took him home for treatment, his body curled up in his father's arm, like a child...He was powerless, he was helpless. His parents locked him at home. He saw that the surrounding walls, sheets, bedding, and pillows were all brick patterns. Life seemed to be imprisoned. The effects of drugs made him hallucinate. He saw the neurotic Simon get in. In his quilt, he saw his good friend sitting on the door wearing fetters, shaking his feet, hitting the door with an iron chain to make a shocking sound, once, once, as if knocking in your heart , He saw Alice’s dead daughter, whom Alice did not know, and the baby crawled towards him on the roof, kept crawling... keep crawling...until he raised his head directly opposite, stopped, turned his head. , The whole head turned around, rushed to him, he howled in pain...

This nightmare is like the effect of my countless nightmares. The horror is the artistic conception. There is no contrived mystery, but it makes you unable to resist and directly impacts. your heart.

I have never been clear about the true meaning of "Trainspotting" translated as "train guessing", and I have made various guesses with my friends. Thanks to TEss's introduction, "It is said to be an ancient game in Scotland, boring old people and children, Standing under the gray iron stop sign and guessing the time and number of the next train, playing boring time and life." In this way, everything has a correct answer, and we have a better understanding of the meaning of this movie.

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Trainspotting quotes

  • Begbie: [to Renton] You better clean up your fuckin' act, sunshine. Cut that shite out forever.

    Mrs. Renton: [Nodding her head] You listen to Francis, Mark. He's talkin' sense, kid.

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [to Mrs. Murphy] I'm sorry Mrs. Murphy. That wasn't fair Spud goin' down and not me

    Begbie: [to Mrs. Murphy] Well it's not our fault! Your boy went down because he's a fuckin' smackhead! And if that's not your fault, then I don't know what is.

    [Mrs. Murphy turns to walk away]

    Begbie: I was the fuckin' cunt who tried to get him off it.