Top 100 Favourite Films: #80-71

#80: Trainspotting – The use of drugs and people

There are a lot of users out there. People whose only real drive is to get that next fix, that hit that can help them escape their surroundings, if only for a little while.

The Wolfpack (2015) - Movie Review

Whenever I get asked exactly why I dedicate as much time to these reviews as I do, I basically break it down to a feeling of obligation. Not only am I giving back to a critical community that helped make me the person I am today, I am also giving back to an art form that has shaped a surprising amount of my personality. My sense of humour, my views of religion, politics, the news, society as a whole, even the way I interact socially with others; I can pinpoint every film where those sensibilities came from for me. It is primarily for this reason that I promote the idea of subjectivity in this field of expertise, because films can affect people in ways that aren’t exactly quantifiable. When I sat down to watch Schumacher’s Falling Down for the first time not that long ago, no one would be able to predict that it would forever change how I look at real-world news stories. Of course, that’s not to say that being babysat by Uncle TV is ideal for the entirety of a child’s upbringing. We are still humans that require interaction with other humans without a screen between them. To illustrate both of these points about how much cinema can teach and questions about how much it should teach, we have today’s subject; easily one of the most intriguing documentaries I’ve come across.