Film Review: Trainspotting (1996)

I watched this because I love sweet Ewan McGregor, and I kept watching it because it was a pretty great movie. At times disturbing, repulsive, and heartbreaking, but also funny, uplifting, and exciting, this was a rollercoaster of a film. The scene where Johnny Lee Miller's character (sick boy) cries is heart wrenching, and I have much more respect for that actor after watching him in this. Ewan McGregor carries this movie with grace, and it wouldn't have been the same without him.

A bunch of friends are junkies in Scotland during the '90s and things don't go so well... but it's very interesting to watch Ewan's character's progression from junkie to normal person and back again. I had to have the subtitles on a few times because the Scottish accents caught me off guard, but the script is actually very well written. The music is an accumulation of pop hits from that era (Iggy Pop, etc.) and it really propels the movie and gives it an energy an original score just couldn't match. Directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), this is a movie you don't want to miss.