I recently watched
Trainspotting (at about 2 in the morning with my friend, so don't chastise me if I can't remember all the details
)
The film is set in Edinburgh, and is based on the novel of the same name by Irving Welsh. The narrator and main character is a young heroin user named Mark Renton (Ewan McGreggor), and the film follows his day-to-day interaction with his own group of friends, both drug users and non-drug users. It also documents his numerous attempts to break the habit, several of which fail. The cast is eccentric, including the nervous (and hilarious) Spud, who goes to a job interview on speed, prompting this episode:
Interviewer: Do you see yourself as having any weaknesses?
Spud shakes head violently
Spud
(hesitates, still squirming in his chair): Well, yeah. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, see.
Needless to say, he fails to get the job (which was his plan, to stay on the dole). The rest of the film is equally as good, treading the line between black humour and serious moral fibre well. I would heartily recommend it to anyone, although it is not for the faint hearted.
My personal favourite scene is one where Renton procures two pills of opium suppositories as a 'final hit' while he sedates himself in a flat, alone, to beat his addiction. In order to release these slowly, he needs to insert them in his rectum (lovely). Having a sudden release of his bowels as the drugs take effect, he ducks into a nearby toilet...unfortunately, he loses the pills. Trying to find them in the toilet bowl, he somehow falls through into an ocean of clear, blue water. At the bottom of this ocean he finds two ridiuclously large pills, the size of his little finger. Screaming, 'I got them!', he then swims upwards and eventually climbs out of the toilet again. How very bizaare.
). A must-watch IMO.
He almost matches Steve Martin for agonising 'comedy'. The following are good popular comic actors, in my humble opinion:
