Film Studies

Throughout trainspotting we see a dull colour pallet, fast paced music fast paced camera shots. This is what makes trainspotting so well known and what made it such a success because although it deals with problems in society like a Social realism typically does it added really unrealistic things to the verisimilitude of the film whichade it more intresting which definitely made it more intresting and enjoyable. If for example you compare it to something like Fish Tank a social realism film based around a similar group in society to the cast of trainspotting coming out a little over ten years later Trainspotting does the same thing but it is alot more enjoyable. Fish Tank can get very boring and just makes you feel depressed about the world throughout the film through the lack of music and just constantly realistic situations. However Trainspotting makes the audience laugh continuously throughout the entire film although still makeing us feel sorry for the characters and makes us think