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Trainspotting

i prefered requiem for a dream. The way i see trainspotting is probably how you see spun when i compare requiem for a dream with trainspotting. Its very entertaining and as lots of funny/weird moments but its not as good a movie as requiem for a dream.

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I just saw Requiem For A Dream and I have to say, I was blown away. Not since 1995's The Basketball Diaries, has a film so accurately portrayed the craving and depravity of a person dealing with(or succumbing to) addiction. It is a beautifully articulated piece of artwork, intricately presented on a silver platter. Director Darren Aronofsky shines in his brilliant direction and style, in this depiction of the downward spiral of the lives of four people, living with their respective addictions.
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alot of addicts who aint in that nice-ass position dont know no better, and even some if they did, still wouldnt give two fucks. to say that showin someone shooting up in the same vein over and over til it collapses or gets infected is unrealistic....
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So true ,Real junkies , the real hardcore ones are really nasty , i have seen a girl with arms 3x normal size because she shoot up all day long , so much holes and decay you cannot imagine. I have seen people who picked their skin all the way trough their muscles and now have and arm missing some muscles because it got infected so bad their had to take the dead flesh out. The world of I.V drugs is a very nasty one. Movies tries to depict this world but it always end up being glamourous or funny or entertaining in someway because people wouldt go see a movie about the real thing.
 
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VERY big fan of the movie, "Beautifully fuckin' illustrated". The book is much better but you have to learn how to read scottish slang.(there's a dictionary in the back ;) And yes, watching Trainspotting makes me fiend like no other for some fucking opiates...my favorite.
 
The movie's great but the book's brilliant. Anything by Welsh is a good read, I thought "Glue" was really cool too and "Filth" was, as someone said, good in its own way. He doesn't just write about drugs, I love the way he develops characters so much that you really identify with them.

I have to agree with whoever said "A Smart Cunt" was the best story they've read by Welsh. It's a novella at the end of one of his other books (Marabou Stork Nightmares, I think), and if you liked Trainspotting you'd fuckin love this one (quick read, too).

Anyone who thinks the Scottish accent in the book is a barrier -- you'll be used to it after about a half-page. Just pronounce the words in yer heid, ya ken?
 
Water said:
It's a novella at the end of one of his other books (Marabou Stork Nightmares, I think), and if you liked Trainspotting you'd fuckin love this one (quick read, too).
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it's (usually) at the end of the short story collection 'the acid house'.

alasdair
 
insanit_e said:
when I flipped through it and realised that it was all written in a scottish accent, and damn it was impossible to read! maybe i would have gotten used to it after a few pages, but i didn't buy it for that reason.
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i find it's like reading poetry by robbie burns, you just need to say the sentences out loud and suddenly they make sense. looking at the words is hard, but once you hear it you become totally "plugged in" to the dialect. you get so used to it, that when you hit a chapter later in the book that's written in american english, it's like a splash of cold water in the face..

i enjoy the movie but i absolutely LOVE the book, and have read it repeatedly. I think the main thing that makes the book better is that it's not focused on "our hero Renton and his junkie friends"... the book's theme is about hopelessness and dispair and myriad ways that people deal with it: drugs, gambling, violence, sex, "choose life", etc..

btw, at least one of the trade paperback editions has a glossary in the back that explains what some of the slang terms mean. i'd highly recommend getting it if you can!
 
Welsh is a great author. Other excellent works of his include The Acid House and Filth, each as twisted as Trainspotting (The Acid House had a short novella at the end entitled 'A Smart Cunt' which has some of the most depraved scenes I've read, excluding Bret Easton Ellis novels)
 
psycosynthesis said:
Welsh is a great author. Other excellent works of his include The Acid House and Filth, each as twisted as Trainspotting (The Acid House had a short novella at the end entitled 'A Smart Cunt' which has some of the most depraved scenes I've read, excluding Bret Easton Ellis novels)
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I agree, The Acid House is a great collection of stories.

AWFUL movie, though. I really didn't like anything about it at all...
 
Saw the movie today. I thought it was good how the biggest asshole/scumbag in the film was someone who didn't do that "chemical shit" (Begbie, as he's taking a swig of liqour). Renton didn't seem very guilty about ruining that blonde haired guy's life (he took the sex video/gave him his first hit).
 
Trainspotting would have been much better if it wasnt based in Scotland (or whereever it was) and those guys didnt have those annoying accents.
 
this has been bugging me... i can never find a reliable torrent... can anybody help link me to a reliable trainspotting torrent?
 
insanit_e said:
I agree... I actually went to a bookshop a few days ago to try and find it, and i did and was just about to buy it when I flipped through it and realised that it was all written in a scottish accent, and damn it was impossible to read! maybe i would have gotten used to it after a few pages, but i didn't buy it for that reason.
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I'm Scottish and I hate reading the book for that reason, but it adds to the effect and I'm also glad it wasn't dumed down for people who are too close-minded to persivere with it.
 
geetered said:
Trainspotting would have been much better if it wasnt based in Scotland (or whereever it was) and those guys didnt have those annoying accents.
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Exactly what I was refering to in my previous post. Open your fucking mind.
 
geetered said:
Trainspotting would have been much better if it wasnt based in Scotland (or whereever it was) and those guys didnt have those annoying accents.
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Yeah it would have been much better if they'd had annoying american accents right? Fair dinkum, there is life and culture outside of the US :p
 
^^ Haha well said.

I liked the fact that it was set in Scotland, i enjoyed the accents, a welcome change from annoying American accents that you hear in a lot of movies. Americans should get used to watching movies how they are, instead of getting them re-made just because they can't be bothered to listen to the way other cultures talk.
 
well I dont speak Scottish, I just about had to use the closed caption because I couldnt understand what they where saying. I think it protrayed how all Scottish ppl are, queers drunks and drug addicts.

Did those guys in that movie have speech impediments especially spud, I couldnt understand a fucking word he said.
 
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