Top 10 Trainspotting scenes
After Danny Boyle confirmed plans for Trainspotting 2 this week, we look back at ten of the best scenes from the original
Renton and Spud's big night out
A hilarious and harrowing scene that encapsulates the film's expertise at weaving polarised tones together. Renton and Spud hit the town for a big night out that ends disastrously for the both of them. On one end of the scale, Renton drunkenly pulls Diane, before discovering in the morning that she's a 15 year old schoolgirl with a propensity for blackmail. On the other, Spud's night of drinking ends with him copiously shitting himself, before spraying the contents of his bowels all over his girlfriend and her family.
Death of baby Dawn
There's no imagery quite so striking as that of a dead child. Whether it's in alleged Ernest Hemmingway stories that are passed down generations to mythical status, or devastatingly real Syrian war photos that turn the tide of cold, right-wing opinion. This scene deftly portrays the humanity heroin use drains from addicts, turning them into selfish, single-minded consumers. Renton's only reaction to the unimaginable horror he's facing is "Ah'm cookin' up", and there's no way the grieving mother in desperate need of something to numb the pain is going before him.
