There are two different opinions about the meaning of the title "Trainspotting". One said it was a slang term: look for the blood vessels in the arm to inject drugs, and the other said that this is an ancient game in Scotland where young or old people can improvisely guess the time of the next train at the place where the train passes. And the destination to pass the time or compete with each other.
How many people watched it without knowing the meaning of the title? This is not the key, the point is whether you feel after watching the movie, and this is not a movie that can be felt after watching it, not because of its connotation and profoundness, but you can always find your own shadow in it.
This film tells the story of a group of problematic youths-Mark who is a little crazy and bad, a clever and proud perverted man, Tommy who is innocent and innocent, an honest and innocent shit bully, and an arrogant Babe who faces youth and reality. The youth in the first half of the movie is cruel but fascinating; the reality in the second half is yearning but cruel.
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The ruffian film that teaches people bad?
Many people say that this film is easy to teach people bad, because the film shows the excitement after taking drugs without concealment? Or the arrogance depicted in the film? That's right, they smoke marijuana, how the drugs melt little by little, but so what? I think there are two psychological reasons for those who think this film will teach bad people. First, there is a saying that it is not that the movie has changed you, but you have changed yourself. If you just blindly focus on their drug use Of course, you will feel that this naked show is very inappropriate. In fact, the director wanted to tell us the story behind it through drug abuse and other rebellion. Second, some people seem to have quite logically believed that a youth inspirational film should have a moral element. We are used to being "educated" and cannot feel that a film that is "educated" must be a rogue film, which is to teach others to learn badly. Yes, this Chinese logic deeply affects many moviegoers.
Most Chinese adolescents are "good boys." At least compared to those bohemian teenagers in foreign countries, heroin, alcoholism, robbery, fighting, sex and other words rarely appear in our youth. The vast majority of children in adolescence are almost School and family are on the same line. When you go home late, it depends on the color of your parents. Occasionally ran away from home. It's hard to talk about how rebellious...so our youth is mostly tied. This show shows the decadence and youth of troubled British teenagers. Movies have brought us a great impact, both visually and psychologically.
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The
first half of the psychedelic youth focuses on youth. There is another translation of this movie called "Psychedelic Train", which must be the focus of the movie on the perspective of psychedelic youth. In terms of shooting techniques, this is indeed a very special movie, with three psychedelic shots in the first half.
The first one was the period when Mark got into the toilet to find pills. He went to the dirtiest toilet in Scotland. Just before entering the toilet, the director used a high-speed camera to make the dirty and realistic scenes pass by one by one. , And when Mark got into the toilet, he seemed to have entered another world, silence replaced the previous noise, purity replaced the previous dirty, and the soundtrack became ethereal. We think that the sewer is the dirtiest place, but what is clearly shown in the film is a psychedelic scene, like a secluded sea, giving people a dream-like trance... The
next thing makes people feel psychedelic. Yes, when Mark was caught in the theft, Shiba became their scapegoat and went to jail alone. Mark gave himself another shot of marijuana because of his guilt towards Shiba and his unprecedented feeling of loneliness. Mark fell on the red carpet, his eyes blurred, his body collapsed, and he was carried to the hospital. During the "prefet day" background music sounded slowly, and the world seemed to be quiet. For Mark, this was the cruelest and most beautiful moment. Just immerse yourself in drug addiction, and any troubles will be thrown aside. The picture Also full of psychedelic sense, we also let Buddha and Mark indulge in the fascinating and cruel youth together.
The last psychedelic scene is the period when Mark is locked up in the room to detox. Tommy's decadence, the appearance of perverted boys and Babe, Diane's singing, and the dead baby climbing the wall appear to be true under the background of the soundtrack. It is also false, and the false and the actual are intertwined, reflecting the pain of Mark's detoxification. There are a lot of people taking drugs that we can't see in the film. It gives people a surreal feeling. For Mark, drug use is very psychedelic, but drug rehabilitation is more psychedelic.
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Cruel reality The
second half focuses on the depiction of reality. Mark found a decent job. His life is full of words such as "profit and loss". He understands intrigue and rebellion... When he started a new life, the troublesome Babe and the perverted man approached him, and they were brazen. Lived a parasitic life in his house. Mark finally designed to get rid of them, the cunning perverted man incited Babe to take a drug deal, and forcefully forced Mark to spend all his savings as the cost of buying drugs. Although Mark was forced to be helpless this time, the high returns brought by the successful business made him temporarily forget his grievances against the perverted man and Babe. He was even a little fascinated by the long-lost brotherhood. But the good times didn't last long. When Mark saw that Babe was still unchanging, he immediately realized that he should get rid of them completely and live a new life. Mark is no longer the loyal and friendly Mark he used to be, and he paved the way for him to steal money from his brothers. In the end, he betrayed the irritable Babe, the honest shit domineering, the perverted man who brought him illegal property, and even didn't have much sorrow for the death of poor Tommy. I can't help but start to miss the previous Mark.
So at the end of the film, Mark stole a lot of illegal money while the brothers were asleep, leaving a small sum of money to the innocent shit, and finally said that wonderful line, the movie ended.
It is said that the Scottish government once distributed free movie tickets to teenagers because the government felt that the ending of the film had a positive educational effect. But put it into reality, we don’t have the freshest air in the world, our youth has no drugs, no indulgence... When you face upsets, at most you can only drink, drink, smoke, and watch the film and dream. We choose Struggling for the house, we choose to work from 9 to 5, we choose to get married... everything is logical. There may be a better way for people who do not want to make the above choices, flee or commit suicide.
But this is always the same-either be assimilated or die alone. this is the truth.
After all, the heroin in the movie is an analogy and symbol. It represents everyone's freedom from worries and real life happiness. Mark bravely chose a new beginning, no matter what his choice, at least he took the first step. He wants to change, he is changing. Among his problem friends, the endings are different. Babe is caught by the police. Shiba gets a sum of money left by Mark to continue his life. The perverted man may still fool around without a point, and Tommy is earlier than before. Just tragically died, Mark is undoubtedly the best of them. Mark’s ending explained to us the principle of "survival of the fittest": no matter how dissatisfied you are with this society, you can't compete with it head-on, but you must know how to pretend and deal with it, and avoid its edge. Only in this way can you accomplish it. This is the most powerful mockery of mainstream society-this is reality.
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Those lines
There are some classic lines in this film, and three of them let People are impressed.
"We are the cheapest garbage in the civilized world on earth. Even a decent culture can't be found. It's the most fucking decay to be ruled by a fucking cock. Even the freshest air in the world is useless."
When Tommy's girlfriend resolutely broke up with Tommy because of the disappearance of the video tape, the four of them took the train to the side of the mountain. Mark scolded like this when Tommy was feeling the nature. This wonderful rhetoric beside the railroad track is a sharp statement of the sorrow of the Scottish nation. This is the postmodern "angry youth" who feel the helplessness of reality but their powerlessness to change. It was this sentence that became the first turning point of the film, because after the fact, Shiba, Perverted Man, and Mark made a decision-to quickly turn around and take drugs. The protagonist of the film, Mark, tried to stop taking drugs again and again, but failed. He never broke through himself. In addition to the refreshing feeling that drugs brought him, he also had a sense of security. After that, they stole money and prescriptions everywhere, sold drugs, dropped packages, forged and copied them, exchanged drugs for others, ingested all kinds of drugs for depression and pain, and their lives became more and more decadent, so that a baby died because of their negligence. And later became Mark's phantom in drug rehabilitation. Mark realized that everything was worse than before.
But they have not changed. The perverted man is the father of the dead baby. At the moment the child died, he understood that he had lost something important, which further strengthened his determination to "keep on mixing", so they began to blatantly snatch it, adding pain in this way. Pain, then melt the pain on the spoon of burning drugs, and so on repeatedly, messing up everything. After being arrested, the content of the film took a turn for the worse. The problematic teenagers were separated. Shiba went to jail. The perverted men continued to mix. Tommy was still willing to degenerate and eventually became the most tragic character and died. The protagonist Mark died due to excessive drug use. He was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, and later locked up for compulsory detoxification.
"You are not getting younger and younger. The world is changing, music is changing, and drugs are changing. The focus is on finding new things for you."
This is what Mark Diane said to him after he successfully detoxified . I immediately felt that I had only one thing to do-live like a normal person and accept reality. In the next few minutes, the footage was a bit like a tourist introduction film in Scotland. After all kinds of beautiful scenes and various normal people passed by, Mark chose to be a real estate salesman wearing a suit, tie, talking and watching MONTY... everything is like a normal person.
This is also the most important turning point of the film. It strengthened Mark’s confidence in the change. This change is complete. It is this sentence that has become an important symbol of the distinction between "psychedelic youth" and "brutal reality" in the film. . But every change has a price, and its price is the loss of psychedelic youth. What did this change bring to Mark? In order to get rid of his so-called buddies, he stole a large sum of money and finally left them and started a new life.
"Why did I do this? I can provide tens of thousands of answers, but all of them are wrong. In fact, I am a bad person, but I will change, I am changing. This is the last time I have done this kind of thing. I have changed my mind. , Keep going, keep going, choose life. I am already looking forward to that kind of life. I will be like you: work, family, big fucking TV, washing machine, car, laser stereo, electric can opener, Take care of your body, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgages, low-cost housing, casual wear, travel bags, three-piece suits, DIY, sports programs, junk food, children, walk in the park, nine to five, play golf, Car wash, choose sweaters, family Christmas, pension tax exemption, clean the sewers. Live your life and keep moving forward until the day of death."
This is what Mark said after stealing money and walking on the road, and the beginning and end of the film. Echoing, ironically, he chose a lifestyle that he disdains for the opening movie. When he got closer and closer to the camera, saying "I will be like you", I suddenly felt a little scary, because compared to the deviant in the film, sometimes it is more scary to expose our "assimilation". , But this is reality.
In the opening movie, Mark vowed to say "I choose a life not to choose". In fact, not choosing is also a choice. Sometimes it does not mean avoiding. On the contrary, when you have a better choice than a fixed choice, you will jump out of the selection box and not choose any one. And the ending actor made a choice, a choice that seemed to fail to break out of the choice frame. Maybe a lot of people are happy for him, but I feel a little bit inspirational at the same time a lot of worry, he just did not have a better choice and made a somewhat helpless choice like us, who has not experienced it? this is the truth.
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