"Choose Life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a f**king big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance.
Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments.
Choose a starter home.
Choose your friends.
Choose leisurewear and matching luggage.
Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of f**king fabrics.
Choose DIY and wondering who the f**k you are on Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f**king junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f**ked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves.
Choose your future.
Choose life…
.....But why would I want to do a thing like that?
I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?”
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That, of course is the opening sequence of 'Trainspotting', Irvine Welsh's novel and Danny Boyle's movie from 1993.
If you've never seen it - here's a link;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC5zRvqnRm8
Amazingly, at the time, politicians lined up to condemn it as glamourising drugs.
Now recognised as a masterpiece, this week sees the release of a sequel 24 years later.
I can't wait!
Although I am slightly worried that it won't be as good as the original.
A lot has changed since 1993; the start of Britpop - great music, of false optimism and anticipation that the Tories would be kicked out of government once and for all. And that everything would be different.
And now 20+ years later?
I'm guessing/hoping that's what the film will be about.
Neil Harris
(a don't stop till you drop production)
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