Trainspotting : Task Three

Main Message:
Don't do drugs - we see the awful affects that the drugs have on Renton and his friends like the babies death, death of the friend who took drugs because of them, and Rentons realisation that he is alone.
It also shows you that if you try then you can succeed - Renton manages to get off drugs eventually.
Also the past can come back to haunt you, when Renton moves away his old friends follow and bring him back to drugs and crime.

Our Society:
The film can be seen as portraying British people as drug taking criminals, it seems that our society is fuelled by consumerism and our main concerns are sex,drugs and getting the next high (we see this when the baby dies and the response is to take drugs)
However we know that everyone in society is not like the main characters as the films minor characters are caring parents, magistrates, job interviewers, showing that there is good and bad in every society.
Also the characters see the major downside of drugtaking when their friend who only started taking drugs because he was dumped that they led astray ends up dying first.

Why was it successful? :
I think it was successful because of party and drug scene there was in the 90's so people may have thought that there would be a happy ending for the characters, we dont know that there are any lessons to be learnt from the posters or trailer, the film shocks the audience and has the dominoe effect, after you see it you are so shocked that you tell a friend and so on.

The soundtrack offers music that was popular at the time of the film, the film seems modern and like the British Pulp Fiction.

Renton's narration at the beginning of the trailer consists of all things that we think about in our lives, but when Renton says 'why would anyone want to do a thing like that?' he seems wild and out of the ordinary, we instantly are intrigued by this character.

It's from the makers of Shallow Grave that was a successful film, if you saw that then you would want to see this.