I didn't get Trainspotting at all
!!!???
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 mortage 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 the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life.
I think that's the quote from the book, rather than the one used in the movie, but I though
Trainspotting
was awesome.
Yeah, the monologue is good in theory, but I still didn't get why the movie was such a big deal. I barely remember a thing about it. It's possible I didn't understand what anybody was saying.
It's possible I didn't understand what anybody was saying.
You're not the only person I've heard make that complaint. The accents are thick enough to make it difficult to follow.
For me, it was almost like listening to Shakespeare: the language was dense and the words sometimes strange and arcane, but if I really listened I could follow the overall meaning of what people were saying.
The accents are thick enough to make it difficult to follow.
The version we saw actually had subtitles at some points. DH needs them for pretty much any film with accents.
I loved it.
We watched Trainspotting, not knowing much about it, when I was pregnant with Ben. Big mistake. Huge.
A friend of mine has a mother-in-law who fervently believes that everything Scottish is just twee and wonderful, so her house is full of plaids, et cetera. He keeps saying that when she gets on his bad side, he's going to send her
Trainspotting
and see what reaction it evokes.
I think that's the quote from the book, rather than the one used in the movie, but I though Trainspotting was awesome.
Plus, that opening monologue is set to Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life", which is possibly the greatest opening song for a film ever. Well, there could be greater ones, but nothing's coming to my mind at the moment.
Well, there could be greater ones, but nothing's coming to my mind at the moment.
"Be My Baby" for
Mean Streets?
"On Broadway" for All That Jazz.
