Trainspotting: Addiction and Familiar Environment

I chose not to choose life I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when youve got heroin? Mark Rent Boy Renton is a youngish Scot that suffers from heroin addiction and is on a downward spiral of drugs and crime. He repeatedly wants to quit and tries to do so, but al miens seems to succumb to clean one more hit in order to cope with his life. With his friends, he is trapped in a seedy urban underworld in spite of the efforts of his family to get him clean.However, Mark has a secret desire to unclutter more of his life, and finds himself facing a choice staying with his friends in his familiar environment or starting his life over. Trainspotting is a very controversial remove, which touches upon instead a bit of themes, though drug abuse is certainly the principal(prenominal) issue dealt with Mark and his friends are all addicted to heroin and the film explores the causes of drug abuse and its dangerous aftermath which in this particul ar grapheme is death Marks friend, Tommy, dies from an overdose and even a short(p) baby girl dies, presumably from living in the intoxicating glory of 4 drug addicts flat.Beyond drug abuse, another concurrent theme in the film is buyback and how unattainable it is we follow Mark making his way show up of drugs, on his journey to redeem himself. He struggles to break out of the vicious circle he is stuck in but lastly succeeds, finds redemption and forgives himself. Trainspotting deals with national identity as well, in this case the lack of a true Scottish identity Mark sees Scotland as nation colonized by wankers and feels as though the stereotypical Scottish identity (with connotations of heroism and honour) is false heritage. He escapes from Scotland hence his Scottish identity when he moves to capital of the United Kingdom and isolates himself, though he cant abandon his Scottishness completely.