Trainspotting • The Next Reel

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Mar 9, 2023 · 1h 9m

“Living like this is a full-time business.”

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose Trainspotting.

Danny Boyle had directed before making Trainspotting, but it’s this film that really seemed to stamp him as a director to notice. This film follows a rowdy group of twenty-somethings, several of whom are heroin addicts. It not only pushed Boyle into the conversation, but Ewan McGregor as well, who stands out as the protagonist of our film. His journey as an addict who works to break free from the life only to (possibly) settle in a ‘normal’ life is the story, but it’s the comedy and energy through the…