Trainspotting 2
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mdavids said:
Spot on review!
Taken on it's own merits maybe it's not that good, I wouldn't recommend it to my 20 something work colleagues for example. But as a 40 something who loved the first film I thought it was pitched perfect.
It has left me feeling a little melancholic for my lost youth though.
I agree entirely on both points. Taken on it's own merits maybe it's not that good, I wouldn't recommend it to my 20 something work colleagues for example. But as a 40 something who loved the first film I thought it was pitched perfect.
It has left me feeling a little melancholic for my lost youth though.
I'm 40 in a few weeks and at the moment it's really doing a number on me - there's a these two conflicting feelings inside me - the first says, you're not young anymore - you think you haven't changed, but you have, your life is a tiny sliver of freedom that runs between two walls, work on one side and family on the other and if you're not careful, one day they're going to join in the middle and you'll be left one of those broken men the "yes dear" men - you get up, you go to work and do as your told, at the end of the day you go home and do as your told and you're reduced to a means to an end, a function without purpose.
The other says you haven't changed enough, by now you should have done more, your career should be greater, you should be richer, you should have built the walls higher by now. As the film hints at - social media tells me all my friends have perfect lives, they're better than you, but they're not as good as the people you allow into your head via your phone, their lives are perfect. You're worried about paying bills if you lose your job - Lewis Hamilton has a f
king red jet, admit it you're never going to be F1 World Champion are you? Failure. I enjoyed the film, but spent most of last night thinking about it in increasingly depressing ways.
I should have waited a few more weeks.
Anyway, fantastic film, it's the second-act of the first film, like the first film it's not really about drugs, Trainspotting seen through the eyes of a 20 year old is a how-to guide to f
king up your life, but it's not really a film about junkies, the characters just happen to be junkies.The second film, on the face of it, is a film about the fall out from the first one, 20 years after the fact, the story follows that arc, but that's not the point of it, the film is about growing up, in the first film they're rebels, an extreme version of what young people are like, in the second they're an extreme version of what it's like to be middle aged.
The film doesn't end with everything tied up with a pretty bow, some things are resolved, some aren't, but there's little fairy tale about it. It deserves all the hype it got and still gets, genuinely thought provoking without relying on paint by number emotional triggers like other films.
P-Jay said:
mdavids said:
Spot on review!
Taken on it's own merits maybe it's not that good, I wouldn't recommend it to my 20 something work colleagues for example. But as a 40 something who loved the first film I thought it was pitched perfect.
It has left me feeling a little melancholic for my lost youth though.
I agree entirely on both points. Taken on it's own merits maybe it's not that good, I wouldn't recommend it to my 20 something work colleagues for example. But as a 40 something who loved the first film I thought it was pitched perfect.
It has left me feeling a little melancholic for my lost youth though.
I'm 40 in a few weeks and at the moment it's really doing a number on me - there's a these two conflicting feelings inside me - the first says, you're not young anymore - you think you haven't changed, but you have, your life is a tiny sliver of freedom that runs between two walls, work on one side and family on the other and if you're not careful, one day they're going to join in the middle and you'll be left one of those broken men the "yes dear" men - you get up, you go to work and do as your told, at the end of the day you go home and do as your told and you're reduced to a means to an end, a function without purpose.
The other says you haven't changed enough, by now you should have done more, your career should be greater, you should be richer, you should have built the walls higher by now. As the film hints at - social media tells me all my friends have perfect lives, they're better than you, but they're not as good as the people you allow into your head via your phone, their lives are perfect. You're worried about paying bills if you lose your job - Lewis Hamilton has a f
king red jet, admit it you're never going to be F1 World Champion are you? Failure. I enjoyed the film, but spent most of last night thinking about it in increasingly depressing ways.
I should have waited a few more weeks.
Anyway, fantastic film, it's the second-act of the first film, like the first film it's not really about drugs, Trainspotting seen through the eyes of a 20 year old is a how-to guide to f
king up your life, but it's not really a film about junkies, the characters just happen to be junkies.The second film, on the face of it, is a film about the fall out from the first one, 20 years after the fact, the story follows that arc, but that's not the point of it, the film is about growing up, in the first film they're rebels, an extreme version of what young people are like, in the second they're an extreme version of what it's like to be middle aged.
The film doesn't end with everything tied up with a pretty bow, some things are resolved, some aren't, but there's little fairy tale about it. It deserves all the hype it got and still gets, genuinely thought provoking without relying on paint by number emotional triggers like other films.
You have hit the nail on the head regarding becoming a "broken man", I love my wife to bits, but can't help feel a little disappointed in myself that she no longer worries about what lunatic antics/state I'll get my self in when heading out to a very rare trip to the pub
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