A quality night in, Vol. II

After watching Kill Bill Vol. I, I was ready for some gritty realism, and what film would be better than the ever brilliant Trainspotting?! I hadn't seen it for ages, but as soon as Iggy Pop blaired out of my speakers I was sucked right back into it. I honestly believe that Trainspotting's opening

sequence is one of the best I've ever seen. And the rest of the film does not let down. The film, worth watching for the brilliant accents alone, is a gritty, realistic look at the world of the urban drug addict. However, it's not as heavy-going as that sounds. It's wonderful to see how Boyle handles it - surprisingly sensitive, neither glamourising drug use nor condemning it. He doesn't centre the film around drugs, he centres it around the characters, who, on a sidenote, are, each and every one of

them, perfectly cast. It's incredible how well this film has aged - you'd think that, a film which so eloquently captured the zeitgeist of the nineties, would be inseperably linked to that decade, but now, almost 10 years later, it hasn't lost any of its power and importance at all. Ten years ago it was brilliant; now it's a bonafide classic.

Cheers