Trainspotting sort of reminded me of a Scottish version of the movie SLC Punk: a youth is giving commentary about his lifestyle, his circle of friends, his town and in so doing exposes the local hip culture and drug problems. So that means lots of vulgarity and crudeness in general, naturally. Of course, this is a Scottish production, so you can imagine the foul language. Also, this movie, I felt, got darker than SLC Punk and had some kinda graphic consequences of heroin use (the dead baby, depression and desolation, AIDS, the awful sickness that comes with heroin withdrawal etc). In the end, the young characters from both movies grow up, move on and get clean, but at quite an enormous cost. In the end, everybody loses here. Parts were funny and ridiculously out there, but its anti-drug message was pretty clear. So kids, don't do drugs! I still don’t quite have the title figured out, maybe it's some Scottish slang that I just don't understand.
