Passing Places and Trainspotting. They play I am analysing is Passing Places‚ by Stephen Greenhorn. It is a Scottish play from 1998 which is set in Motherwell. Alongside with this‚ I will also analyse the movie ’Trainspotting’‚ a movie directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel ’Trainspotting’ by Irvine Welsh. First I will focus on the main characters in the several works and analyse their development throughout the play and the movie. Afterwards I will compare the play and film‚ and how they each
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Trainspotting "Over the years‚ heroin and addiction have provided the subject matter for more than a few noteworthy films." The cult film Trainspotting‚ based on Irvine Welsh’s book of the same title‚ offers an attractive case study as it represents a wide view of British youth culture by considering a large number of issues such as the critiques of consumerism‚ Thatcherism‚ class stratification and gender identities. The film portrays the lifestyle of a group of young drug addicts which places
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argues‚ is what everyone should strive for. It has been said that Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting is a critique of both excess‚ and the culture of‚ materialism. The characters in Trainspotting are drug users and have alienated themselves from society. However‚ is this a rejection of materialistic society or is it a result of their exclusion from society‚ and their inability to ’succeed’ due to their social class? Trainspotting is a poignant story told with a certain rawness and harsh resignation that exposes
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English talk. Irvine welsh. Irvine Welsh is a very famous Scottish author‚ He’s wrote books like Trainspotting‚ The Acid House and Marabou Stork Nightmares etc. Irvine Welsh Is probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish heroin addicts‚ Trainspotting‚ Irvine focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use. Irvine welsh is also known for writing in his native scot dialect‚ Making his prose challenging for the average reader unfamiliar with the style. His
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evidence demonstrates that Requiem for a Dream offers a warped‚ illusional depiction of addiction‚ whereas Trainspotting is objective and honest. The character’s choice to live in an delusional fantasy rather than face reality in Requiem for a Dream is evident of their powerlessness and lack of will. The belief that they can obtain the American Dream while on heroin is irrational. Trainspotting‚ on the other hand‚ offers an honest and uncensored depiction of the horrors of heroin-use through narrative
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movements mesh together until‚ finally‚ all their woes have become the one. They all find themselves bound by some form of prison. Similar in theme to Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting‚ Requiem for a Dream addresses a different perception of drug addiction‚ the effect of addiction in its various forms and what it can drive a person to do. Trainspotting also has a style of its own in depicting the lives of addicts‚ however I found Requiem beautifully illustrated the emptiness of life and the costs of failure
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The film was created on a £1.5 million budget and was considered highly likely to earn the production cost. It made a huge success with a figure of £12 million in the national market‚ and $72 million internationally. Hill proposes Trainspotting “combines an interest in social issues (drug-taking‚ AIDS‚ poverty) with a determinedly self-conscious aesthetic style reminiscent of the French and British ‘new waves’. In experimenting with cinematic style‚ however‚ is also plays with the inherited
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Edinburgh University Press‚ 2004) Rankin‚ Ian‚ Black and Blue‚ (London: Orion Books‚ 1998) Rankin‚ Ian and Shields‚ Paula‚ ‘That Curmudgeonly‚ Old‚ Chain-Smoking Bugger Will Die Some Day’‚ Fortnight‚ No. 418 (Oct.‚ 2003)‚ pp. 24-25 Welsh‚ Irvine‚ Trainspotting‚ (Great Britain: Mandarin Paperbacks‚ 1996)
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ilFilm Review Paper: This course tries to cover how psychology and abnormal behavior is often covered by the media. Sometimes life imitates art just as art often imitates life. For better or worse‚ society’s understanding of mental illness is strongly influenced by media. Nonetheless‚ it allows for the study of disorders‚ their etiology‚ and their diagnosis. For this paper‚ you are to choose a character from a movie on the list below and write a case description that includes a multi-axial DSM-IV
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Assignment Two: Violence Violence is social phenomenon that has and always will be part of our human behavior. Individuals have a choice over violence and for some they are able to channel these feelings into a nondestructive outlet. Others‚ like the two students who shot twelve people in the Columbine High School Massacre‚ it exhibits a frightening lack of control. There are many influences and outside factors such as gaming‚ music and psychological processes that lead to violence. Violence
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