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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

More on Trainspotting...

Rewatching Trainspotting 1 again it is the introduction that really grabs one into the movie and won't let you go from there. It opens with a funny and accurate diatribe against everything that is wrong with suburban life. Meanwhile there is racing music as Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy run from the police.

FABULOUS TRAINSPOTTING INTRO- CHOOSE LIFE

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Text of the intro: "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television Choose washing machines, cars, compact-disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments, Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose D.I.Y. and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose Life. But why would i want to do that? I chose not to chose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

TRAINSPOTTING 2 - CHOOSE LIFE FROM TRAILER

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Text of Choose Life 2: "Choose life. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames wishing you had done it all differently. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose your future. Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn. Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work and choose the same for your kids only worse and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody else's kitchen. And then take a deep breath. You're an addict so be addicted. Just be addicted to something else. Choose the ones you love. Choose your future. Choose life!"

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