Trainspotting (1995)

Though dark in tone and the bulk of the humor is blacker than a raven's wing at midnight, Boyle's sense of humanity persistently creeps in around the edges.

Among its deeper merits is that it proves a movie doesn't have to be mean to be fresh.

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Full of repugnant junkies so unpleasant that I was hoping they'd all OD just so I could escape this torture test.

Trainspotting will have to go down in the annals as one of the great anti-heroin films of all time -- better than Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm, and on a par with Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, maybe even better!

Put simply, Trainspotting is one of those films that gets the mixture just right. The dialogue, the music, the performances, the direction, the production values, the humor, the shock-value.

Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is a blast of ice-cold water across a sweaty brow; it's a lively, vibrant and pulsatingly addictive movie.

A pop culture sensation that drew notice to its own urgency and immediacy.

Una historia excepcionalmente narrada.