Trainspotting Movie Analysis

Adolescences is the stage in a person’s life where an individual begins to figure out who they truly are. Many adolescences experiment and try new things during this stage, in order to discover what they like and dislike. No one person is exactly alike but during adolescence many individuals will follow others just to fit in with the crowd they think are the most popular. Adolescence’s that are raised in a poor environments or that have not been giving rules growing up usually participate in risk taking behaviors such as drug use, criminal acts, and death defying events. Trainspotting can relate to the risk taking behavior of adolescents because this movie is based on four individual boys whose lives are influenced by each other and illegal acts that cause them pain and suffering. This movie is portraying adolescences who have not been raised properly and that have gotten with the wrong crowd in life. These boys are addicted to heroin that have caused them to act out, steal, and one of them almost losing their own life. They do not understand the degree of their behavior because they are just teenagers who think that they are invincible and they are just having fun. There are many things that the main character, Mark, tries to change but his addiction of getting the “high” from the heroin …show more content…
They are struggling with emotionally and physically and cannot find a way out because they have no one to support them and guide them. A good healthy environment is needed for adolescences to find their self-identity in a positive and reassuring way. However, some children are not provided with a good lifestyle so their adolescence years pay for it by them participating in very dangerous and unhealthy behaviors. Adolescence years are very critical and should be taken seriously because how the individual behaviors in those years can be a key factor in how the rest of their life could possible