T2 Trainspotting

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12/21/2024 this did not disappoint. See more Mark B Nov 2 Renton would never return. Waste of time. Painfully stupid. Boyle is finished. See more Gareth v Aug 9 A thoughtful, nostalgic follow-up that balances reflection with the raw energy of the original. See more Obi-wan K @Gordon_Freeman Jul 20 Ovr js a smooth sequel See more Faiz D May 13 "You're an addict, so be addicted. Just be addicted to something else." Choose life, choose this. See more Evan B Feb 7 I was fifteen when I saw 'Trainspotting.' The film had already been out ten years by then, but watching it was a subversive epiphany for a teenager in the suburbs of the Midwest. The soundtrack introduced me to Underworld and Lou Reed, I crushed hard on Kelly MacDonald, and the ending scene scored by 'Born Slippy' became an indelible reference point as I grew up and began things, and had to began them again. I watched and re-watched, fascinated by the characters' twisted passion when it came to heroin and Sean Connery, by the unflinching look at how addicts living hit to hit simultaneously challenge respectable society whose addictions are subtler and more socially sanctioned. Watching 'T2' was a strange experience - I had aged alongside the characters, no longer a kid but ambivalent about the nature and obligations of adulthood. Career? Accountability? Respectability? As we can imagine any of the main actors uttering, "F@#k that." Was the strangeness due to being "a tourist in my own memory" as Sick Boy accuses Renton of? What is honest reflection and what is indulgent nostalgia? Do we need to atone for our past mistakes and betrayals, and if so, how the hell does one do that? 'T2' draws from the original but wisely does not attempt to recreate its electrifying subversiveness (probably impossible). It succeeds as a soberer examination of the themes that was ecstatically embraced in the first film. At its best, 'T2' provokes viewers who have come of the age with 'Trainspotting' to reckon with their own lives, their complicities and complacencies, their subtle betrayals of others and themselves against their best attempts at love and selflessness. An amazing sequel to an unrepeatable original. See more Read all reviews

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