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Trainspotting Opening Monologue

I found this posted out on the Interwebs today. I think it’s brilliant although you need to put the visuals and audio track with it to get the full effect. Watch the opening credits of Trainspotting at YouTube. Click -> HERE.

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.

Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.

I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you’ve got heroin?

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One Comment

  1. I absolutely love this movie.
    And the monologue is amazing.

    1. Paula on February 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm