TRAINSPOTTING

Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain of inconscious, Mark Renton is a hero for our times. The adventures of Mark and its so-called friends – a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies – chart the desintegration of their friendship as they proceed, seemingly inevitably, towards self destruction. Mark alone has the insight and opportunity to escape his fate – but then again, does he really want to “choose life”?