Inspiration

The inspiration for our final piece came from a mix of our own tastes, but what sealed the deal was our joint passion towards the 1996 film, "Trainspotting" which is an extremely well known and highly regarded film based around the Edinburgh drug scene and Renton who tries to "clean up and get out", despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Danny Boyle is a personal favourite among directors for me alongside other greats such as Shane Meadows. I will be researching more about these two in more detail at a later date.

For me what makes "Trainspotting" such an inspirational and influencing film is its uniqueness within the genre, the way trainspotting jumps straight into the action and then uses the drama to show what is happening by breaking the tension really appeals to me as it makes us as viewer question the film from the go.

Another reason Trainspotting is inspirational to me is because unlike most other drug related films it doesn’t have a dark and depressing feeling even though the story is quite hard.

Trainspotting mainly relates to drugs but really has aspects of many personal issues such as death, aggression, depression and unemployment.