Trainspotting

Robin and Carolina choose life, choose dental insurance, choose the best f*cking Scottish film ever made.

Politics include: the working-class communities of Scotland in the 1980s that turned to drugs as a form of protest, Danny Boyle creating a film that straddles the Thatcher and Blair years (sorry, John Major), and the most perfect soundtrack ever produced.  

Come get (musically) high with us:

• Listen to the whole soundtrack, stat.
• An interview with Andrew McDonald and Robert Carlisle on the BBC
• Trainspotting and the cultural politics of the 90s - Thatcher-tastic

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