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...freaking out that her 13-year-old daughter Zivia has run away from home. Ed, Pat's redneck husband, is still mad at Ian, his brother, because Ian gave Ed's new play a bad review and caused an actor to commit suicide. Zivia, however, has become a heroin addict and enjoys dancing wildly to "I Put a Spell on You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. C.C. calls her old friend Porter, who helped her in drug rehab last year, to help Zivia. Ian comes prancing in and, after much pomp and circumstance, agrees to rewrite Ed's play...
MICHAEL KRANTZ has been fascinated by new media since the dawn of what he calls "the age of infobahn hype." He's a self-confessed recovering Doom II addict who has written about everything from Nintendo to nanotechnology; this week he covers Time Warner's all but completed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting. Before joining TIME, Krantz was a senior editor at Mediaweek and an indefatigable free-lancer (his work appeared in such magazines as New York, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker). He is also that lucky man who is happy in his job. "My field," he says...
Another Miramax import, the film tracks the misadventures of some twentysomethings in Scotland, nice little punks in their own special ways. The movie's humble narrator is Renton (Ewan McGregor), heroin addict by zealous choice, as he informs us in sympathetically bitter intonations...
Renton's withdrawal provides probably the lowest point in the film. Renton doesn't so much hallucinate as dream a carefully engineered catalog of guilt and fashionably crazy images: the ceiling-crawling dead baby (an unpardonable motor mockup) of an addict friend, check; a game show about HIV (a risk with syringes, we mustn't forget), check; and a voracious bed that swallows him up, check. To repeat--and oh, but the movie does--a techno beat pounds on throughout the scene, making Renton's screaming seem that of a hard rock star rather than an addict in withdrawal...
...admission, Mark Renton, the enunciator of this caustic credo, is "a bad person." Heroin addict and layabout in the lower depths of Edinburgh, Renton steals from stores, locked cars, old-age pensioners' homes, his own mother's purse--all to support his "sincere and truthful junk habit." He blithely betrays his friends; his schemes help send two mates to jail and another into an early grave. When a baby in his shooting gallery suddenly dies, Renton's only impulse is to shoot up. He also smokes, talks dirty and blasts a dog's butt with BB-gun pellets...