Choose life

Lloyd 2022-03-21 09:01:10

"Choose life.Choose a job.Choose a career.Choose a family.Choose a fucking big television.Choose washing machines,cars,compact-disc players,and electrical tin openers.Choose good health,low cholesterol,and dental insurance.Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments.Choose a starter home.Choose your friends.Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning.Choose sitting,watching mind-numbing,spirit-crushing game shows,stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.Choose rotting away at the end of it,pissing your last in a miserable home.An embarrassment to the selfish,fucked-up brats that you 've spawned to replace yourself.Choose your future.Choose life.But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life.I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

"So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's gonna change. I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing .I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on.Going straight and choosing life.I'm looking forward to it already.I'm going to be just like you.The job,the family,the fucking big television,the washing machine,the car,the compact disc,and electrical tin opener,good health,low cholesterol,dental insurance,mortgage,starter home,leisurewear,luggage,three-piece suite,DIY,game shows,junk food,children,walks in the park,9:00 to 5:00,good at golf,washing the car,choice of sweaters,family Christmas,indexed pension,tax exemption,clearing gutters,getting by,looking ahead to the day you die."

View more about Trainspotting reviews

Extended Reading
  • Curtis 2021-10-20 18:58:46

    The toilet turns out to be the ocean inside. .

  • Curtis 2022-03-24 09:01:11

    Choose life, choose work, choose career, choose family, choose fucking big TV, choose washing machine, car, CD player, electric can opener, choose health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, choose low interest loan, choose house , Choose friends, choose casual clothes and matching suitcases, choose installments, three-piece suits, and use a series of damn fabrics. When rotten youth becomes a thing of the past, you find that it is nothing more than a good medicine.

Trainspotting quotes

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Thank you, your honor. With God's help I'll conquer this terrible affliction.

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [narrating] I wished that I'd gone down instead of Spud. Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates and I've never felt so alone. Never in all my puff. Since I was on remand, they've had me on this program, this state sponsored addiction. Three sickly sweet doses of methadone a day instead of smack. But it's never enough. And at the moment it's nowhere near enough. I took all three this morning and now I've got eighteen hours to go until my next shot. I've got sweat on my back like a layer of frost. I need to visit the Mother Superior for one hit. One final hit to get us over this long, hard day.

    [to Swanney 'Mother Superior']

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What's on the menu this evening, Sir?

    Swanney: Your favorite dish.

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Excellent.

    Swanney: Your usual table, Sir.

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Oh, why thank you.

    Swanney: Would Sir care to pay for his bill in advance?

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: No. Stick it on my tab.

    Swanney: Ah, regret to inform, sir, credit limit was reached and breached quite some time ago.

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Oh, well in that case...

    [hands him some cash]

    Swanney: Ah, hard currency. Thank you, Sir. Can't be too careful these days. Would Sir care for a starter of some garlic bread perhaps?

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: No, thank you. I will proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please.