{"id":2993,"date":"2009-02-07T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2009-02-07T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T00:06:18","slug":"trainspotting-danny-boyle-1996usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"Trainspotting (Danny Boyle 1996):USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reviewed by Jesse Solomon. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Choose Trainspotting<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose the sick realizations of a Scottish drug attic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose Ewan McGregor playing a proper drug attic trying to quit at every turn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose this brilliant adaptation of a novel by my favorite writer Irving Welsh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose an incite in to the lives of a few friends struggling with anger issues, innocence, irresponsibility and drug habits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to rob and steal and fuck people over and now matter how much you do it you\u2019ll have to wake up and do it all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose health insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose hilarious music montages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to run or to say.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose your friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose the test of a junkie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose heroin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose sobriety.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose matching luggage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to spend the next 87 minutes of your life on something spectacular, disturbing and hilarious all at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to literally feel the anxiety of a withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose a fucking big television.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose leisurewear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to look ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to die.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose good health.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose the life you live, or don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to be in someone elses shoes for just a few moments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to predict this unpredictable film or don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to never do a drug again or ever because of this film.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to excepts this message of independence, whether it be right or wronge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to do what is right for you and no one else.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose the beautiful imagery by Danny Boyle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose the dirtiness, the stink of great filming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to see a new side to underground drug culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose to decided reality and fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Choose life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose Danny Boyle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose Trainspotting.<\/span><\/p>\n

But why would anyone do a thing like that, because I said so.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Jesse Solomon. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival. \u00a0 Choose Trainspotting. Choose the sick realizations of a Scottish drug attic. Choose Ewan McGregor playing a proper drug attic trying to quit at every turn. Choose this brilliant adaptation of a novel by my favorite writer Irving Welsh. Choose an incite in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}