Tourists in our own youth – the evening newspaper

Maximilian Haase, 10.02.2017 – 20:30 PM

photo: 2017 Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH

The orange-and-white Poster with the scrawny, Heroin-Chic young man on the wall; the enthusiastic Retelling of the legendary scene in “the filthiest toilet in Scotland”; the peculiar Fascination of broken-down province-types: Everyone, to the middle of 90-he was interested in the broadest sense, jung and film, combines such memories with “Trainspotting”. Danny Boyle’s Scottish drug Drama based on the eponymous Irvine-Welsh-novel revolutionized in 1996 the cinema with a surreal-grotesque excursions into the social suspended world of an Edinburgh Heroin-Clique. “Trainspotting” was the epitome of a “cult film,” his of Boyle staged a sequel 20 years later, therefore, just as longed for as feared. A time-critical is usually to become work like the previous “T2″. The reunion with Renton and co. unit to pay a nostalgic past values of management – for the protagonists as well as spectators. Actually, Mark Renton, the sad Hero of the first part was dedicated to a, now a middle-class existence – in Amsterdam, far away from the drab Edinburgh district of Leith. There, how could it be otherwise, he returns in “T2″ two decades later – because he put his marriage in the Sand, and also because of feelings of guilt plagues. Part One ended with the boy Renton in London with the hard-earned drug money out of the dust. Soon they are together all over again, those facing figures, which wondered even then why they were friends: Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who sat the entire time in jail, and now breaks out; Spud (Ewen Bremner), who is still on the needle, and Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), the lives of the blackmail rich fetish-Free. That it managed to Renton is the Only (at least temporarily) “”, is taken from him evil and may on the side be as a little ironic comment to the fact understood that Ewan McGregor is the Only made the breakthrough in Hollywood. Avenge the aged Begb ie, still the same brutal and aggressive thugs. To get revenge, Sick Boy, the polished to the new arrival shortly after arrival, directly to the face. But Renton. To remember, to bend things again, just to revel in the fucked-up noise of the youth days, as the Director does and how the audience will do. Externally, the protagonists have aged adult, you are not in a long time. Stuck in her memoirs; engaged in the processing of events not to be processed. Boyle, the oriented and its Sequel, in broad terms at the Welsh plant “Porn”, visited in his Film the old places and thoughts, which are subject to the change of the time: it Was the abandoned trunk Pub, the Sick Boy, now in a Puff wants to convert, the infamous withdrawal for your children’s room or the legendary monologue about the “say Yes to life”, Renton in conversation with the newly introduced female character Nikki (Anjela Nedyalkova), on the present time, and pleasantly self-deprecating restages updated. At all: In the Re-staging of T2 like “” well – so-common mate be accompanied tours with Snapchat-nonsense. However, “T2″ goes a step further: there and back scenic memories flash, real excerpts from the predecessor, which are compared with the present. The fact that he ecstasies, the Original”Trainspotting” with pictures of Drugs, escape scenes, fights, calls to mind, beyond Boyle in a clever way, a comparison is not to win. How? The once-breathtaking cinematic approaches have long been common knowledge, the most provocative social criticism of the original long-pop-culture Canon. And yet: Needless T2 is “” by no means; as a nostalgic Drama like it, with its still grotesque Exaggerations, while exposing a tragic social reality. And again with a dry Scottish wit, courage, to the artistic Experiment and, once again, outstanding Soundtrack. What would you say in any Sequel, otherwise, applies to “T2″: This doub ling has needed it. Not only Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud had to say. Also, as a viewer one has the feeling, the unprocessed “Trainspotting”feeling revived and from the distance, once again, viewed from all sides. “You are a Tourist in your own youth,” criticises Sick Boy at one point Renton’s return. Also, the audience by “T2″ to the tourist: in his own movie past. A journey worth taking.