#38: Trainspotting

Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting tracks a group of Edinburgh heroin addicts through highs, lows, and toilet-diving nightmares. Ewan McGregor’s Renton narrates the chaotic ride with dark humor and a killer soundtrack that captures ’90s youth rebellion.

“Choose life” speech and kinetic energy make it a visceral, funny, and unflinching look at addiction that somehow feels exhilarating instead of preachy.

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