Trainspotting is based on the novel of the same name by Owen Wales. The film was released in 1996, and the spirit of the younger generation in many European countries at the end of the century was slumped. The scene in the movie is like a drug tutorial, and the movie tells the story of a rebellious young man living in Edinburgh whose life is corrupted by drugs, constantly self-destructing, and eager to be reborn in the destruction.
You're not getting younger, the world is changing, the music is changing, the drugs are changing, you can't be here all day, dreaming about drugs and Yin Ji Pop, the point is you have to find something new
In the first few scenes of the film, Mark runs desperately to escape arrest, takes drugs in his room, and plays football with his bad friends.
With a large monologue: choose life, choose work; choose a damn big TV; choose washing machine, car, CD player, electric can opener; choose health, low cholesterol; choose building mortgage; choose first building, choose you choose casual clothes and suitcases; choose installment payment; choose DIY; choose to wake up on Sunday not knowing which green onion you are; choose to sit on the sofa, watch shit TV, and put junk food in your mouth; choose to suck your life One is shameful, lying in a nursing home allows people to choose the future and choose life.
In fact, for Mark, there were so many choices that he talked about, and none of them had anything to do with him. Those were not what he wanted.
Like many losers in movies, just like the circumstances of his life, many people can say a long list of truths, but it has nothing to do with these addicts themselves. These are what the audience is told, what the screenwriters want to articulate.
When Mark first started detox, he went to the park with the sick boy. They acted like children in a boring way. They used machine guns to spoof people in the park. They played games in restaurants and had drinks. Or say the old man.
The sick boy said that people's life always rises first and then declines, and then never returns. Like David Bowie, Charlie Nicholas, Elvis. These easily persuaded Mark.
The film itself has a dark and humorous style. My favorite is the interview with potatoes. The three examiners sat upright and asked him why he wanted to change his education. Potato was sitting across from them in a strange posture, seriously talking about the issue of people's livelihood, the discrimination of educational background. When the examiner asked him why he chose to work in entertainment, he looked at the mural next to it. The scenery in the painting was a tropical rain forest, with coconut trees, a beach, and a blue sea. He said "cool".
In the bar, Mark is looking for someone who is willing to "cooperate" with him for sexual desire. He meets Diane and has an affair with her, only to find Diane in school uniform standing in front of him in the morning. Tudou and his girlfriend came home, the girlfriend was in high spirits, and Tudou had fallen asleep. Because of the drug, he was incontinent early in the morning, and the shit got on his girlfriend's parents who were eating breakfast. Tommy borrowed the wrong video tape with his girlfriend, so his girlfriend broke up with him. Frustrated, they originally went to Mama Sang's place for a "big meal".
Tommy, the only one of them who doesn't touch drugs, drags them on a train to the wilderness, showing the vast world that there is no place for youth and restlessness. The only thing I feel about watching this movie is this scene. But he pulled it back again in Mark's self-sarcasm.
They said things that didn't fit with themselves, but they knew they were scumbags.
Tommy got in on it too, because he thought it was better to do drugs than to have sex. Begby is irritable and hits people when he's not happy. In their spiritual world, they want to be happy.
The turning point of the movie is when the baby leaves because he ingested drugs by mistake. This is the child of the sick boy. With the baby's departure, some things on the sick boy are gone forever. They start looting wantonly and then run away, and this escape is the opening scene of the film.
Potatoes were arrested. Mark rehabilitated and failed again. The moment he climbed out of the wall and arrived at "Mama Sang", the film uses this fantasy, and the post-modern style also requires the beginning of the film. Mark burrows into the dirty and narrow toilet to pick up drugs, and goes into the toilet, which is really clear at the bottom of the lake. The world of drugs is the world they aspire to. This shot is borrowed from Gravity's Rainbow. And then he fainted due to drug use, and people were attached to the red carpet to the lower limit. As well as the detoxification in the back, the baby crawling around the house, the baby left because of drugs, this is also Mark's desire and fear of drugs in the process of detoxification. The cut of this style makes the subjective color of the film more intense and dreamy.
Later, Mark succeeded in detoxification and went to what he called the narcissist colony - London to make a living. Diane sends Mark a letter telling him everything in Edinburgh Tommy died of drug addiction. The only traces of his existence at this time are the unpacked cassette and a cat. He used to be the most disciplined of them all, but he fell deeper than anyone else.
One day in London, Berger came, and so did the sick boy. They have a big deal planned, and the violent Berger is their head. I didn't mention this role before because I didn't like it, and the director also specially dealt with some of Berger's shots. In "The Graduate", such shots are the female lead seducing the male lead. And such a shot here is a deliberate devaluation of the character of Berger.
They made a deal, and one night Mark stole all the money after calming down with a glass of water, and the awake potatoes didn't expose him.
For them, the only loyal ones are potatoes, any of the three of them is looking for the right time to get all the money and run away, Mark is one step ahead of them
He strode down the street with his wallet in hand, the sun shining on his face, his face gradually enlarged and confused. Like his future, it is both unknown and full of hope. He was free again.
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