Trainspotting (1996)

A nice quirky comedy about heroin addicts -  not words you hear in the same sentence often.  But it works.  Reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs - it could have been made on a stage.    Another one from the lost decade of the 90s.

Much of the action takes place in an apartment or a hotel room with a very stripped and vivid design.  Director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) has some fun as well with his "toilet scenes"  While the movie has a central theme of the delight of drug use/abuse, it operates at a level slightly outside of reality, just like the drugged characters.

My favorite part was the extended riff on the bad part of being Scottish - "we've been colonized by Wankers"

Worth a look * * 1/2