Trainspotting: Dark Comedic Story Of Mark Renton

Trainspotting is a 1996 film telling the dark comedic story of Mark Renton and his hand few of friends in the UK and their battle with heroin addiction and breaking the law. Personal note this film is one of my all-time favorites, so I was incredibly excited to write a paper on it. The story opens in Edinburgh Scotland, Mark is running form security guards after he had just robbed a store with his friend Spud. This is the scene where Mark goes over one of the central points of the movie “choosing life”. Mark states other people have chosen life with a stable marriage, house, 401k etc. while he and his friends have chosen heroin addiction and the crazy life that brings. Right after this scene we are introduced to Marks other friends, Sick Boy the scammer, Tommy the clean one of the group, and Frank who is the psycho one. All the guys (minus Tommy) spend their days getting high on heroin with their drug dealer Swanney.
He goes to a club with his friends to get his mind off of it. Mark leaves with a young woman named Diane, they have sex and Mark has to sleep in the hall. The next day Mark realizes he’s just had sex with a 15-year-old and scared, tried to leave the house. Diana threatens to tell the police so Mark continues to talk to her because of this. Tommy is dumped by his girlfriend because of a crazy string of events caused my Mark. He stole Tommy’s sex tape and replaced the tape. His girlfriend believed Tommy retuned the tape to the video store. The break up causes Tommy to enter a deep depression and try Heroin, against Marks