Choose life. Choose a job. Chose a career. Choose a family. Choose a
fucking big television. Choose a washingmashine, a car, compact disc players,
electrical toothbrush…choose your flat. Choose your friends. Choose to wonder
who the fuck you are in Sunday mornings. Choose your future. Choose life.
“Why would I want to do a thing like that? I choose not to choose life.
I choose something else. And the reasons…there are no reasons. Who need
reasons when you got heroin?”
Take the best orgasm you’d ever had, multiplice with a thousand and
it’s still no way near it. When you are on “junk” you only have one worry
– score it.
Renton, the principal character in the film, chooses heroin, and that is
a fulltime business. Several times he tries to quit but without any success. He
goes home, locks the door, prepares himself with many different provisions like
tomato soup, ice cream, milk, mouthwash, pornography, a mattress, three buckets:
one for urine, one for motion and one for vomits, one galipot with valium, a
social acceptable drug, which he had stolen from his mum. Now he is ready to
start (“stop”). But…he just need one more shot until the valium begins to
effect. Like all the other times, this is another failure; he takes his next
shot after twelve hours. During those twelve hours he’s at a club looking for
a fuck and there he meets Diane. She happens to be that kind of girl he likes
and inspite of her young age he doesn’t mind seeing her again, and he likes
her more than he will admits.
He starts taking drugs again. He returns to his ordinary lifestyle, which
means stealing money for heroin, taking shots and his only problem is how to get
money for his next shot. But the police catch Renton and his friend Spud…
And now we have reached a big turning point in Trainspotting. It’s now
you notice that the film is devided into two parts. The first part is a high
spirit and unreasonable black comedy about young peoples egoism and asocial
friendship. They use slang as spoken language. The dialog contents shit, vomits,
piss and fucking. Their picture of the world is one sided and criminal.
The second part is about they get caught, Spud gets six months and Renton has to follow up his rehabilitations program. His parent takes care of him and for a while he stays clean. He get along quit well until he meats his old friends again. Soon back in business again – heroin business. But not for long this time, he wants to sort out his life. So he decides to “cleaning up, moving on, going strait, and choosing life…”