Review Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Bueller's Day Off And Jurassic Park

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"Trainspotting's" subject matter is raw and raunchy, including AIDS, overdoses

and violence as well as obscene situations described in unprintable language.
This is a film that makes you laugh of things that can in no way be described as
funny. How is this possible? In the film's signature scene, where Renton, in
search of some lost opium suppositories, dives head-first into "the filthiest
toilet in Scotland" and emerges in a sublime and spacious undersea world. And
despite Renton's celebrated saying on the pleasures of heroin, boasting, "Take
the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere
near it," "Trainspotting" is only interested in drugs because its characters are.
Most feeble of the characters is the glasses-wearing Spud (Ewen Bremner). Most
devious is Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who knows all there is to know about
Sean Connery. Most innocent is Tommy (Kevin McKidd), whose insistence on telling
the truth no matter what is ...

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