Trainspotting

always my favourite, always noticing new things. i feel like the tragedy at the very heart of the film is the fact that renton's philosophy - that his heroin addiction is fine, because everybody is an addict who ruins their life in some way or another - is proven to be correct more often than not. no conceivable good ending can really be imagined for any of the characters: even if tommy, for instance, hadn't become an addict and died, his life may have been spent bound to the misery of watching his friends continue to destroy themselves, in an unhappy relationship - obviously, objectively, this is a marginally better fate, but the telling of the story from renton's point of view is almost capable of making a case which suggests otherwise. for how funny it is, in places, it's actually such a miserable film at its very core.