The movie Trainspotting introduces us to a topic that has been touched on already this semester, drugs. This time we get to see the dark life that is the druggie. In traffic there was a brief look at how the Junkie lives, but in Trainspotting that is all we see. Even though the drugs play a major role in the film that is not entirely what this blog is about. What this film makes me wonder even more is the value of friends. At the core this is a movie about what a good friend is, and at the end it was hard to decide if Renton was a good or bad person.
This film ends with Renton stealing £16,000 from his friends. He gives this long speech about how this is last criminal act, and that he is going to change his act. This gives the audience the feeling that Renton is about to completely change his life and go the straight and narrow. This is the natural thought because you want Renton to succeed, but does he really deserve to? Renton has ruined everything that he has come into contact with, maybe with the exception of Dianne. He is the reason Tommy is dead, he introduced his friend to heroin so he could get money to pay for heroin. Throughout the movie Renton always seemed to take a step forward, but they would be followed be a thousand steps backward. This then makes me question his final actions. How are we to know that he will not blow all this money on heroin? Renton is a generally bad person, and it is difficult for me to believe that he will change.
This film ends with Renton stealing £16,000 from his friends. He gives this long speech about how this is last criminal act, and that he is going to change his act. This gives the audience the feeling that Renton is about to completely change his life and go the straight and narrow. This is the natural thought because you want Renton to succeed, but does he really deserve to? Renton has ruined everything that he has come into contact with, maybe with the exception of Dianne. He is the reason Tommy is dead, he introduced his friend to heroin so he could get money to pay for heroin. Throughout the movie Renton always seemed to take a step forward, but they would be followed be a thousand steps backward. This then makes me question his final actions. How are we to know that he will not blow all this money on heroin? Renton is a generally bad person, and it is difficult for me to believe that he will change.
Excellent question about friends. In fact in Traffic Caroline's friends are not really friends either. What is the difference between the druggies in Trainspotting and Caroline and her friends?
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