Trainspotting – Neue Helden (1996)

Trainspotting – Neue Helden: Directed by Danny Boyle. With Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

“After reading some of the reviews that trash this film I had to speak up.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film is gritty and dirty. There is content which is not pleasant, swearing and violence amounts other things. What else would you expect a film about drug addiction to be about? Well more than that actually, it about choices and what you Choose! Never at any point did this film make drugs look at all appealing to me in any way, I never did understand why so many people thought that it did. At no point did it ever say u0026quot;Look at this, its cool.u0026quot; For those who think the level of swearing in this film is too much then they clearly havenu0026#39;t spent any time with working class people in Britain, not just Scotland. I being one of them can say its fairly accurate in that account.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThat being said, those things do not take anything away from the film, the quality of plot and story, or the acting which is Stunning! Robert Carlise as Begbe was excellent, and Ewan MacGregor shined. Also the character Spud was worth a mention he really was quite good.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film is in my Opinion a work of Genius, that represents the book accurately.”