A shot of youth. Review of T2 Trainspotting
They have grown older, but hardly wiser and certainly not happier. The most famous drug addicts in the cinema Renton, Kayfolom, Koceryzhka and Begby returned to the screens two decades later with the afterword of the legendary British 1996 film about the heroin everyday life of Scottish youth. With the support of director Danny Boyle, they told us a sad but instructive story about what happens after you choose life.In the novel Trainspotting Irwin Welch wrote that trying to quit heroin is the biggest challenge you can pose to this very life. Mark Renton to the sequel's release. tied up. It seems that all these years he waited for heaven to thank him. But heaven turned out to be deeply indifferent to the personal feat of a single addict. Totally disappointed with the correct conscious being, in an attempt to return at least for a while to the state when the only problem was finding the next dose, Renta travels from Amsterdam to his native Edinburgh. There he will be greeted by those he robbed in the Trainspotting finale. Based on the plot of the tragicomedy T2 Trainspotting , Kayfol now runs a pub and trades in blackmail in the company of a pretty sex worker, whom he considers his girlfriend. The clumsy Stump could not cope with modern realities and got hooked again, and the frantic Begby escaped from prison and attacked the trail of Renton in order to punish him for betrayal ... Besides them, Mark awaits in Edinburgh everything that heroin once helped him to cope with - fear and disgust, hopelessness and longing, resentment and hatred, pain and depression. With all their mercilessness, they attack the middle-aged man, and his veins again ask for fire. Or at least something similar that can satisfy that verylust for life.  But the trouble is - the old methods are no longer suitable, and the new ones cannot be compared with drugs, multiplied by the bubbling energy of youth. And our heroes begin to do what many 40-year-old losers do in order to somehow rock themselves, revive themselves - they are trying to organize a joint business. And like many 40-year-old losers, it’s not a business, but a crazy adventure. It is it that returns them a shine in their eyes, almost narcotic. And who, if not Danny Boyle , could organize such a skit with dashing expressiveness, frantic energy, special Scottish humor and sentimental tenderness for the poor four? Over the years since the release of Trainspotting , Boyle has not filmed anything: in The Beach he sent his heroes to a paradise island, where the situation was somewhat darkened by bloodthirsty sharks, in horror film "28 Days Later" populated post-apocalyptic London with furious and rather nimble zombies, in "Inferno" he ambitiously introduced us to the dying Sun, for "Slumdog Millionaire" he collected eight "Oscars" , and in the film "127 hours ”from a chamber drama about a climber stuck in a rock made a harsh action about pain, overcoming it and accepting it. So it was not difficult for him to entertain the elderly drug addicts. In "T2" four shabby men of varying degrees of sanity rush about Edinburgh like mad, drink alcohol with frenzied greed and not only, they arrange a goofy mess at a Scottish redneck party, and in the process of a friendly fight, which unfolded, of course, in a pub, they "lemonade" each other's faces with bar equipment. In general, here we have the case when"a good toastmaster, and interesting contests".  Boyle's handwriting is visible in T2 with the naked eye: clip-like, psychedelic play with color and light, mixing genres, original camera angles. It seems that the operator had to sweat a lot on the set and show remarkable acrobatic abilities. Coupled with an abundance of touching Easter eggs (the updated soundtrack can also be counted among them), as well as nostalgia, which the authors themselves aptly called "pulsating", and a beautiful, downright graceful ending, this made the sequel unexpectedly invigorating. Such a sequel, more like a flamboyant postscript, is capable of giving viewers the same pleasure as Renton did his short trip in his youth. During the promotional campaign for the project, Danny himself and each of the four Scottish "Musketeers" repeatedly told reporters, that shooting "T2" was a matter of honor for them, and not a way to earn an extra penny. They may no longer justify themselves to us - the quality of the final product speaks for itself.  At the same time, old man's grumblings and memories of those times when the grass was greener are presented here in homeopathic doses. This movie is sad not in its genre, but in its declared subject matter. It could not be otherwise, no matter how many jokes and gags you put in there."Choose disappointment", the world says to Renton . Choose spontaneous express tours of your own youth and tortured flashbacks that leave only a shameful aftertaste and headache. Choose Twitter, sequel, quadcopter, vaping and gentrification, but life will still sweep past you like a train that you missed 20 years ago. And it's not that the world has changed, but that you didn't manage to change with it.  In the 90s, the topic of heroin was so relevant that it gave rise to such a fashionable trend as “heroin chic”. Drug use is not cool today, even among young people, let alone a more conscientious public. The original was a portrait of an entire generation and marked the transition from the culture of the 80s to the 90s, when illegal substances were involved in the creation of new music, and music, in turn, encouraged them to use. The sequel does not signify anything, does not reflect the spirit of the times (if you do not consider such disappointment in everything in the world) and it is not destined to become a cult film. Among other things, "T2" is quite merciless to those over-aged slobs, in whose heads crazy winds still roam. Trainspotting was a look into the soul of a generation, its continuation is a look into a filthy mirror, without illusions, but with a grin on his lips. Boyle does not grumble or sigh, does not urge us to feel sorry for Renton and his comrades or to condemn them. But, using the power of cinema and wonderful actors, he gives the viewer such an injection of youth, from which the pupils dilate, breathing quickens, and the pulse picks up the rhythm of the railway clatter. If other directors learn to feel nostalgic for the 90s so recklessly and boyishly fervently, then the day is not far off when moviegoers will no longer be sick of the word "sequel". The Topic of Article: A shot of youth. Review of T2 Trainspotting. |
