Trainspotting Question Analysis
Trainspotting How does the aesthetic quality of Trainspotting depict youth and drug addiction? Trainspotting was released in 1996, from director Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle. The film focuses on the lives of heroin addicts and the struggles they face in Edinburgh being young in early 90s. The first clip I will be analysing from Trainspotting is the very opening scene which involves Renton and Spud (Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner) sprinting away from security guards as it would appear they have just stolen something from a shop and so run down a street to escape. The very first thing we see is a long, wide shot of a street in Edinburgh and then all of a sudden 2 legs disturb the scene and there is a low mid shot of Renton’s feet as he runs away, also Iggy Pop’s Lust for life begins to play, this is non diegetic sounds over the images of the 2 friends running away. Next we see a double shot of Re...