CINEMA: ON THE FAST TRACK

HARROWING AND HILARIOUS, THE SCOTTISH TRAINSPOTTING BRINGS ITS CONTROVERSIAL TAKE ON DRUG ADDICTION TO AMERICAN MOVIE SCREENS

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f----ing big television...Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows...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----ed-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves...But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

By his own admission, Mark Renton, the enunciator of this caustic...

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