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- Rent Trainspotting on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. A brutal, often times funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Edinburgh. Not for the faint of heart, but well worth viewing as a realistic and entertaining reminder of the horrors of drug use.
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Trainspotting is one of my favorite movies and I'm happy that T2 went for the more intellectually-rewarding route of addressing aging and nostalgia and change rather than just a stream of "whoo boy, you remember the original right??? The original sure was a great movie!!!" the way other sequels do.
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I've heard ok reviews about the film tho so i want to get some peoples opinion on it before i rent it (cant find it on streaming services if you know one that has it that would also be helpful). Is it a good sequel/continuation of the themes or is it just kind of its own standalone thing?
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- Verdict
By Daniel Krupa
Posted: Feb 6, 2017 11:00 am
Trainspotting is one of the most iconic, influential British films ever made. Danny Boyle’s movie about taking heroin and ‘choosing life’ defined a generation like no other. Making sequels to those kinds of movies – the ones that perennially adorn student walls and define an era with every single scene – usually doesn’t seem like a good idea. But T2 uses that baggage to carve out, along with the passage of time, a surprisingly introspective follow-up.
T2 is both an epilogue and companion piece to the original, with so much of the script in active conversation with the events of the first movie, the past. Renton has been living in Amsterdam – working in financial sector, no less – ever since he screwed over his mates at the end of Trainspotting. But after suffering a mild cardiac ‘incident’ in the opening scene, he returns to Scotland to confront those he left behind – his father, now a widower, and of course, the friends he betrayed.
It’s fascinating to catch-up with these characters two decades later, and find that so little has changed. Sick Boy’s powers, along with his hairline, have waned; he’s stuck pulling pints in a pub on the edge of nowhere. Begbie is as violent and unpredictable as ever, but instead of holding court down the local, he’s spent the last twenty years in the nick. And Spud – well, he never escaped his skag addiction.
Renton returns and attempts to reconnect with Spud and Sick Boy. He desperately wants to make things right, but is quickly drawn into Sick Boy’s latest scheme: conververting his dead-end boozer into a brothel. As with the first movie, the plot is largely incidental to the relationships and characters wants to revisit. Not one of the is successful, happy, or even content with their present lot in life. It’s a melancholic story, with Renton hopelessly trying to navigate the future by confronting his past.
As with Renton’s revised version of the ‘Choose Life’ mantra, T2 knowingly stands in the shadow of the original. But that’s the point. Director Boyle, screenwriter Hodge, and the cast not only embrace the passage of time and choose to examine its effects, ensuring T2 feels like a meaningful and intelligent sequel; one that explores the melancholic ...
Mar 15, 2017 · Read Matt Goldberg's Trainspotting 2 review; Danny Boyle's film stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Anjela Nedyalkova.
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May 25, 2021 · Despite the nearly impossible expectations of delivering a follow-up to one of the defining films of the 90s, T2 Trainspotting is a fantastic sequel about the passing of time that avoids the...
