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Film · 1996 · Black comedy
Trainspotting
Directed by Danny Boyle
1996
★ 7.3 editorial score
It made a heroin film feel like a night out without ever pretending the squalor was not there: Boyle cut the whole thing to a soundtrack that never sits still.
“The needle goes in. The floorboards open. And Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), the acidly attractive hero of "Trainspotting," drifts into the druggy oblivion that this film depicts with such dead-on, calculating ingenuity. For better or worse, sometimes strictly for the sake of shock value, the stylish irreverence of "Trainspotting" mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick.”
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