Trainspotting by Danny Boyle

                                                                           TRAINSPOTTING

                 Trainspotting is a movie which tackled about drugs where a group of dissatisfied Scottish youths turned heroin as a way to escape the dullness and of modern day existence. Then they begin to discover that there are no easy solutions to inherent loneliness and pain of life.  and friendship and how people, from being addicted to drugs, changed

                    Movies about drug addiction are nothing new, but this film makes everything look different, It feels like  it is the first film to deal with the subject. It didn’t play safe as to portraying someone addicted but it slap in our face the realities of life.  Trainspotting is brave sometimes hilarious; it's dark, smart and stubborn. It's more than one of the best 'drug movies' ever made

                  The actors’ acting was so natural that it mad the movie more realistic. The camera angle was mostly, point of view  shots of the character which helped in making the film more realistic. The mis-on-ce of the film was great especially, the scene where the lead took drugs and his point of view shot was him being buried in the mantel that scene somehow made the audience feel what the character is feeling.

                   I really like the opening scene of the movie where the lead characters are being tracked by the camera  while running, and is being introduced as well. It kinda conveyed a message that the film was actually about running away and as you finished the movie you'll think that them usinig drugs is their way of running away from life. It was really cool which matched the whole plot of the story and very original that some of the documentaries here in the Philippines actually copied that technique.

                 As a whole the music used in the film is full of irony. For example when Renton is hallucinating that he is disappearing down the 'dirtiest toilet in Scotland', we hear a mellow music playing. The film takes a surreal twist here and we enter a world of soft sounds and images as Renton swims in a blue ocean. This all contrasts harshly with the reality of Renton digging into a filthy toilet to find his heroin suppositories, while he vomits uncontrollably

                   All in all it was a great film the story was good, the actors’ performance was superb the directing of the scene seems so natural that it was more convincing for the audience to accept and the editing was smoothly done.