trainspotting essay
Trainspotting is a 1996 british social realism film about the struggles of heroin addicts in 90s Scotland, it raises multiple different opinions and ideologies about addiction and the effect it has on society, also how the social acceptance of the heroin addicts can be clearly recognized by certain scenes in the movie. The context of the film is also extremely relevant to the plot and Ideologies of the film, since the 90s Scotland has been the worst country in Europe for deaths from drug related to deaths, even today this is still a major issue for the country, this made drug overdoses and drug addictions a focus point of Scottish media which increased the social awareness of the crisis. Even during the production of the film to understand the impact of the addiction Ewan Mcgregor went to a drug addiction recovery clinic to research the mannerisms and thoughts of an addict, going to the lengths to learn how to make heroin from one of the people in rehabilitation. The film starts with