content: All I can say is that the main characters of 'Trainspotting': Rents, Spud, Sick boy and the Beggarman have never left me since reading the novel of the same name by Irvin Welsh back in the 90's. This darkly humorous, provocative and hard edged movie interpretation of Irvin Welsh's awesome `Trainspotting' novel follows the exploits of these now famous four and puts working class Edinburgh on the map. The local dialect/vocabulary, characters, theme music and storyline is as distinctive and at time challenging as Burgesses `Clockwork Orange'. Welsh is the bard of the new century Scots working class consciousness in distress and this movie version is pure catnip to his established and first time fans. A must see unless you're easily offended, too old or Tory i.e. English conservative.