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T2 Trainspotting is a 2017 British black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge. Set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland, it is based on characters created by Irvine Welsh in his 1993 novel Trainspotting and its 2002 follow-up Porno.
T2 Trainspotting adds an intoxicating, emotionally resonant postscript to its classic predecessor, even without fully recapturing the original's fresh, subversive thrill. Read Critics Reviews
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By Daniel Krupa
Posted: Feb 6, 2017 11:00 am
Trainspotting is one of the most iconic, influential British films ever made. Danny Boyle’s movie about taking heroin and ‘choosing life’ defined a generation like no other. Making sequels to those kinds of movies – the ones that perennially adorn student walls and define an era with every single scene – usually doesn’t seem like a good idea. But T2 uses that baggage to carve out, along with the passage of time, a surprisingly introspective follow-up.
T2 is both an epilogue and companion piece to the original, with so much of the script in active conversation with the events of the first movie, the past. Renton has been living in Amsterdam – working in financial sector, no less – ever since he screwed over his mates at the end of Trainspotting. But after suffering a mild cardiac ‘incident’ in the opening scene, he returns to Scotland to confront those he left behind – his father, now a widower, and of course, the friends he betrayed.
It’s fascinating to catch-up with these characters two decades later, and find that so little has changed. Sick Boy’s powers, along with his hairline, have waned; he’s stuck pulling pints in a pub on the edge of nowhere. Begbie is as violent and unpredictable as ever, but instead of holding court down the local, he’s spent the last twenty years in the nick. And Spud – well, he never escaped his skag addiction.
Renton returns and attempts to reconnect with Spud and Sick Boy. He desperately wants to make things right, but is quickly drawn into Sick Boy’s latest scheme: conververting his dead-end boozer into a brothel. As with the first movie, the plot is largely incidental to the relationships and characters wants to revisit. Not one of the is successful, happy, or even content with their present lot in life. It’s a melancholic story, with Renton hopelessly trying to navigate the future by confronting his past.
As with Renton’s revised version of the ‘Choose Life’ mantra, T2 knowingly stands in the shadow of the original. But that’s the point. Director Boyle, screenwriter Hodge, and the cast not only embrace the passage of time and choose to examine its effects, ensuring T2 feels like a meaningful and intelligent sequel; one that explores the melancholic ...
Directed by Danny Boyle. Face your past. Choose your future. After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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Jan 20, 2017 · Lightning might never strike twice, but Danny Boyle and co have delivered a thoughtful, respectable and knowing sequel to 1996's 'Trainspotting'
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- January 27, 2017
Mar 16, 2017 · T2 Trainspotting is refreshing and radical in its normalcy. It makes a case of its existence without ever pandering or trying to outdo its zeitgeist-grabbing predecessor.
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T2 Trainspotting is a 2017 British black comedy drama film, directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge. Set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland, it is based on characters created by Irvine Welsh in his 1993 novel Trainspotting and its 2002 follow-up Porno.
