The film Trainspotting opens with a memorable monologue from Mark Renton. The police are chasing him. What could he do? Choose these above, or going to jail, or to die?
This is the story of Mark and his so-called friends—a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and druggies. They chose heroin, and the most degenerate life in the dirtiest corner of Glasgow. This is the plot of Trainspotting apparently, and the reason why it was disputed in these years. You may either love it very much or hate it. Few neutrals exist.
If this is a film only plays up the decadence of youth, it should be throw into the dustbin when we finish see it. That's no so simple. Trainspotting is not only about drug addiction, but also about the relationship between wasted youth and the spiritually bankrupt society which has reprobated them. It proposes the problems of how to choose life. In this film I had seen my own shadow on Mark, a little bit arrogant, a little bit shy; sometimes angry, sometimes quiet.
At the end of Trainspotting , when those partners appeared in his life again, Mark found that he had already been incompatible with them. Then he chose betrayal, he found an opportunity to escape his fate at last. In fact, any guys would do that if he had the insight . It's not a shame to betray. The shameful one is the man who is staying in the past.
Although Mark was still running on the way of pursuing, he would not pursue purposelessly as adolescence. All he need to find is an adult's life style. “Cars, career, family,fucking big television, washing machines…” Mark moved on his way with a smile. Now, I'm on the way to my dream too. Maybe one day, I will meet Mark; the young man whose youth has been fade from his memory; the young man just likes me.
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