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‘Trainspotting’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald

The Rewatchables

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I Think the Surrealism Has Aged the Best

I think the humor has aged the best. I mean, the movie is funny and it's funny in a very, very Scottish way. And so that feeling that cuts through this movie absolutely takes the edge off of certain moments when he's climbing into a toilet full of literal human shit. The boil's ability to infuse this movie with things that are impossible,. like Rhetton falling through these trap doors or swimming in a toilet to get opium suppositories also seems to have aged the best to me.

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