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| Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy/drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh |
Trainspotting is a film about drug
addiction. It centers on the life of Mark Renton, a young man with a
little less objectives in life. Mark is a heroin addict, who loves the drug's
blissful effect. For him, drugs provide excitement and challenges that his life
lacks. He spends high amount of money just to satisfy his cravings on heroine.
He lives in the city of Edinburgh where he is accompanied with his fellow drug
addict friends, Sick Boy and Spud. The three of them usually hangs out with
Begbie, a borderline psychotic who loathes mark and his friends, but is a heavy
drunkard. After being rehabilitated by his parents, Mark left heroine and moves
to London where he finds a job, a flat, and something close to peace of mind.
However, Begbie, went to him in London and later on followed by Sick boy and
Spud. He then was introduced to drugs again and lived like his past life. When
the moment Mark and his pals earned money from drugs, something unexpected
happened. Begbie became selfish and forgot their friendship. In the end, Mark
realized that nothing can be achieved with drugs. He took the money for himself
and ended up choosing life.
Reflection
The movie has a great impact for me because
it showed me the consequences of drugs on people. Young people are often the
subject of drugs. They think that their life is too bland and boring so they
would rather take drugs to escape the reality of life. Mark is the example of
this. In the first part of the scene, he asked himself “why would you choose
life?” He is afraid of being part of the world, afraid of facing circumstances and
difficulties of life. He chose to take heroine to experience pleasure and
delight, which his life lacks. Drugs are the ones which destroy young people’s
lives. It makes them self-centered and makes them living in an imaginary world.
Through drugs, different crimes can take place. Stealing money is one of them.
In the movie, money is used to trade drugs. It even is the reason why Mark and
his friends broke their friendship. Drugs also make you neglect yourself and
the people around you. There is a scene in the movie where the baby died in
hunger because his parents were addicted to drugs. Dirty surroundings and evil
temptations are part of this drug addiction. However, one can make himself out
of this trouble by rejecting drugs. Mark was rehabilitated by his parents. It
was not easy for him to withdraw drugs because you can experience
hallucinations from drug withdrawal. But he managed to get through this. Later
on he was tempted again to take drugs. But in this part of his life, he
realized that taking drug is not life, rather, it is death. He compared the
Mark who has a job in London from the Mark who is addicted in drugs. In the end
he chose life. And that life I mean is having a job, a wife, a family, a son, and
everything that is the source of happiness. That is what Mark wants be. He
neglected drugs and chose life. Life is not something which you escape from, life
is a man’s most peculiar gift and something to be thankful of. The moral in the
story is, reject drugs and choose life.
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