T2 Trainspotting

I never thought it’d be Begbie that made my eyes get moist.

A very slow start but in the end I really liked it. The statement 'you can't go home again' seems inevitable, logical. Life changes and you either stay moved on else you are consumed in it, destined to repeat it over and over again. You gotta make the decision, I suppose, to stay stuck and comfortable in being the last 'indigenous' person as Spud put it. Or risk going forward and hoping that home remains a safe haven even if you don't recognize it. I stayed but it doesn't mean I don't think about changing that every day. Never too late, right?

The "choose life" monologue never fails to bring me to tears.

https://youtu.be/PgsfVJMWL0E

Audiovisual orgy inside this perfect sequel.

It's even better than the first one. I'm amazed on how it's filmed, and for sure I'll watch it again.

A rather good sequel!

'T2 Trainspotting' is exactly what I expected it to be. Turns out, it was also exactly what I wanted it to be. I thought it was great! I mentioned in my review of the original that I didn't like the characters, at all. Whilst that is indeed the case for that film, in this follow-up it does a grand job at making you care for the main bunch more; well, aside from Franco but we don't talk about Franco.

It probably is missing out on as much substance (pardon the pun), if only when compared to the 1996 flick, but evidently I'd argue it makes up for that with improved (harsh/wrong choice of word, perhaps) characterization. Even though I only watched the other movie for the first time a mere few hours prior, it was still cracking to see Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle back together in their respective roles - aged 'n all.

I appreciate both films, albeit in different ways. This one I actually 'properly' enjoyed, whereas before it was more an appreciation of how effectively it was told. Terrific productions either way, really.

choose... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian Firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging, from your first wank 'til your last breath; human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who've had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work. And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and maybe tell yourself that it's better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment and choose losing the ones you love, then as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone and there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronika. Choose life.

I liked this a lot more than I would. It very cleverly plays it's (and our) own nostalgia with that of the characters.

I'm not sure how I feel about Spud becoming the in-universe author of this story. Kind of like Bilbo Baggins writing the Hobbit. But I enjoyed the movie a lot and it felt like a good sequel.

Great film and the perfect sequel to Trainspotting.