thompson trainspotting

Life as we know it is done of our own choices and decisions. These decision and choices reflect how we live the rest of our life, but we have to power to change our future. We have the power to become and strive for the things that we truly want and want to become in life.

In the movie Trainspotting we meet four boys who are addicted to heroin. These boys proclaim and accept that they have chosen a drug over life. A life that could have been filled with goals and aspirations. The drugs gives them a temporary and artificial fulfillment. This fulfillment replaces the realities of life. This drug is also an excuse for them not to deal with society and things such as work and family. At the house where the boys would get high, there was a girl who lived there. We see her transition as she becomes more involved with heroin. We see as time continues on in the drug house, there is always a baby present. The girl ,who is the mother of the child, becomes an addict. The boys are awaken by her scream as she finds her abandoned baby dead in the crib. Personally, I thought that this was going to be the scene where everyone gives up heroin or the movie then goes into another direction. Not only did the movie not change directions, but Renton and the mother both take another hit of heroin to "take away the pain". The political message in this film is that we all have the same opportunities as the next person and sitting around blaming things like the government will get us nowhere. Renton and his friends all had their own justification about clean life and/or their life paired with heroin. The catch is, no one ever tried to change their own destiny.

In this scene, Renton is justifying again. Diane is a person who would be truly genuine to Renton. On their first night, she proclaimed to him how he truly was (in a manner of a plan to be with him) and he absolutely feel for it. In this scene, Renton looks uncomfortable but with still passion in his eyes. Renton truly likes Diane, but justifies his reasonings for why they can not be together. This shows how in Renton's world he wants things, he wants life but like everything else, he pushes them away giving his reasons for why things can not happen, and not once did he blame it on himself.