T2 Trainspotting

Published May 18, 2024

Film info

Title T2 Trainspotting
Director Danny Boyle
Year 2017
Run time 1hr 57m
Genres Comedy, Drama
Tagline Face your past. Choose your future.

First there was an opportunity... then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.

Live blog

Time	Comment
3:11	Can’t stop thinking about the treadmill. Dangerous things.
5:17	“Daylight hasn’t shown the same ambivalence towards me.”
10:14	The things people will do in prison!
13:15	Oh wow, the shadow on the chair is genius.
19:27	That’s G4 security to a T.
21:06	“So what you been up to? For twenty years.”
29:44	Edinburgh is so beautiful from certain angles.
35:11	“Should last another thirty years, they said. But they didn’t say what to do with them!”
44:23	Was not expecting that anti-Catholic turn of events!
53:35	Yay Kelly MacDonald.
1:03:25	“Anyway, it amused us at the time.” Intense!
1:08:18	Leith 2.1. Hmm.
1:19:05	ALWAYS keep your phone on silent.
1:29:11	Reliving the scenes from the first film is fun.
1:37:40	It does show how generations can improve though.

Thoughts

It was interesting watching this back to back with the first movie, they’re like two completely different things. This one was still really good, but so much more polished - the actors know what they’re doing now, there’s more money invested in it, and it feels more shiny even when it’s trying to be grungy. Even with the nods and references and callbacks, it’s a different story told in a different time in a different way. But still totally captivating.

Rating: 4 / 5