Trainspotting

“’New Scottish Cinema’ suggests a new wave of film production and is often attributed to filmmaking that considers itself alternative or oppositional to other forms of mainstream cinema”, David Martin Jones, (2005:11). Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1995) is a film that worked around the social, political and cultural development in Britain in the late 20th Century. It gives rise to questions of identity, culture, and community. The main theme in this film is about a group of friends with a heroin addiction, and the destructive effects that heroin-taking has upon the individual members of the group. Trainspotting is narrated by Mark Renton, on his need to give up his heroin addiction. The end of the film is about a longing for happiness, with Renton’s concerns of living within the contemporary world. When watching Trainspotting, the visuals provide a sense of style that takes the viewer along with the trip. On following the…

CLIP OF TRAINSPOTTING The team rejected Alien 4 in 1997 to make A Life Less Ordinary. Danny Boyle said of the Alien film "I don't do storyboards". He was worried he would not have the creative freedom he liked and he would become swamped in high pressure film-making. The film was bigger than their previous two - it took 50 days to shoot and had a budget of £7.5 million, financed by Twentieth Century Fox. Despite this and the fact it was a romantic comedy shot in…

Without drugs to cloud his perception, Renton finally allows himself to externalize his frustration as he bombards his friends with his lack of national pride. Statistics reflect that there was a significant decline in British pride in Scotland during the Thatcher Era, but Renton’s admission of his disdain for being Scottish indicates that both his pride and morale were diminished (Tilly 671). In his journal, Wankerdom, Farred states, “Trainspotting is the voice of the disaffected, the…

In this sequence from the film ‘Trainspotting’, directed by Danny Boyle, cinematography and mise en scene are used extremely effectively to connect the audience to the main character Marc Renton and his experience of going ‘cold turkey’. At the beginning of the sequence (48:30 minutes) ‘Renton’ has just been brought home from the hospital by his parents following a heroin overdose, and he’s been locked in what seems to be his childhood bedroom in order to overcome his addiction that’s been…

Trainspotting takes place in Scotland, following a group of friends who have an unhealthy addiction to drugs, particularly heroin. The main character is Renton, who, throughout the book and film, struggles with drug addiction and heroin withdrawal. Both the book and the movie are in a Scottish dialect. Although the movie and book were very similar, there were many differences. Such as the narration, the presence of misogyny, and the portrayal of symbolism. Not only does the story follow Renton…

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…

as well as philosophies that are shaping the world from different societies in the world at large. I conducted this study with the aim of analyzing how the ideologies of Marxism are portrayed in the movie the Trainspotting and whether they are evident in American society. The methodology that I chose to apply was qualitative methodology through content analysis and interview. The data that was collected was analyzed and presented in a coherent way. I was able to find strong evidence of Marxism…

behave carefree nowadays, which lead them to consequences. In the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, the author writes the collection of short stories which depict the heroin subculture in 1980’s Edinburgh. In several short stories, Renton is always shown to readers as a winner over conformity. Similary, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, McMurpy becomes a winner. McMurphy in the story show his superior over other patients and every time he looks as the winner. In both novels,…

The movie used in the analysis of mise en scene for this assignment would be based on the movie Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996). The selected scene would be Mark Renton’s dream sequel, starting from the point where his parents locked him up in his room up till the point where the baby drops from the ceiling towards Renton. From this scene, we can see various withdrawal symptoms faced by drug addicts, in this case, Mark Renton. In the beginning of the scene, we can see Mark’s parents locking…

Early films, such as Reefer Madness, were used to scare people away from taking any kind of drugs, even fairly harmless ones. Later, films like Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke take advantage of the collapse of the Production Code to make lighthearted, humorous films about the effects of relatively harmless drugs, like marijuana. However, current films make hard drugs such as heroin seem to have little to no impact of a person’s life, as seen in Trainspotting. It seems that the focus of these films…