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URL:https://www.thesap.org.uk/events/trainspotting/
SUMMARY:Trainspotting
DESCRIPTION:THE SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY\nIn Partnership with\nEVER
 YMAN\nIN THERAPY\n\nAdapted from Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel\, Dany Boyle's 
 "Trainspotting" is a vigorous\, gritty evocation of an economically depriv
 ed\, de-industrialised\, Aids-riddled Edinburgh drug landscape seen throug
 h the lens of a kind of social -realism pessimism of mass unemployment and
  decline\, exacerbated by Margaret Thatcher's ravages of industry in the 1
 980s.\nThe film explores the darker shadows of addiction and captures the 
 energy of what it is to be transgressive. Holding the tension of a volatil
 e cocktail of opposites\, with the intensities\, highs and lows of drug us
 e supercharged with sulphurous humour\, brutal recklessness\, violence\, a
  colourful vocabulary and a heightened expression of 1990s pop culture\, i
 t takes a pragmatic view of addiction and shows some of the most disturbin
 g images ever put to screen. The film's fierce joy and colour palate was i
 nfluenced by what Danny Boyle called "the in-between land\, part reality\,
  part fantasy'.\n\nThe film portrays how the anti -hero\, Mark Renton\, to
 gether with his fellow practitioners Sick Boy\, Spud\, Tommy and Begbie\, 
 is struggling with his particularly radical individuation journey of grapp
 ling with getting off heroin\, somehow making sense of his life and fallin
 g hard for teenager Diane. The characters are carelessly amoral and expres
 s personal myths of screwing up\, causing pain\, and taking outrageous ste
 ps to obtain drugs. Boyle convincingly observes the shared camaraderie\, h
 umour\, desperation\, understanding and shared need among users\, whose su
 bstance abuse sets them apart form ordinary civilians. There is always the
  secret agenda\, that the drug of choice is always more important than eng
 aging with the every­ day liveliness of friendships\, family\, jobs\, pla
 y and sex. As Renton says about the drug experience: "Take the best orgasm
  you ever had\, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it
 " .\nIt is also a socio-cultural comment on the materialistic panacea that
  Society offers the compliant\, and remarkably modern as a forerunner of t
 he toxic hard-man mythos. Begbie's brutality embodies nihilism and psychos
 is\, whilst Sick Boy looks to a lost cool Scottish machismo as expressed b
 y Sean Connery that is no longer relevant in the 1990s.\n\nThe issues rais
 ed are as relevant to today's society as they were when the film was made.
  These will be discussed following the film in a dialogue between Rupert T
 ower (Jungian analyst) and Hessel Willemsen (Jungian analyst)\, and chaire
 d by Adam Reynolds (Head of Brand Partnerships\, Everyman). Do join us!\n\
 nVenue: Everyman Broadgate\, 1 Finsbury Avenue\, London EC2M 2PF 3HP\n\nTi
 ckets £18.40\n\nBook directly: Everyman Cinema
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