Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies by Salva Rubio

Author:Salva Rubio [Rubio, Salva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780984157693
Publisher: Save the Cat! Press
Published: 2017-04-03T21:00:00+00:00

TRAINSPOTTING (1996)

Irvine Welsh’s maze-like multi-point-of-view novel was adapted by John Hodge with the intention of producing “a screenplay which would seem to have a beginning, a middle and an end,” and ended up resulting in a film ranked # 10 in the BFI 100 Top British Films of all time. So this indie jewel is our gateway into, or more accurately out of, a tale of drug addiction and all that surrounds it — in this case: Scotland.

As an “Addiction Passage,” Trainspotting tells the story of Mark Renton, a young punk trying to quit heroin, one of the most addictive substances on earth... but maybe not as addictive as feeling safe among the wrong friends.

Mark starts by having consciously chosen his heroin addiction to avoid the responsibility of adulthood, and he knows he is spinning in the hamster wheel of drugs. He will soon figure out that his life might be dramatically shorter if he does not change his ways.

We like Mark from the beginning because he has resolved to quit, but as in any good ROP, he tries to do it “the wrong way.” He thinks that heroin is all that he has to give up to change, but in reality, he will have to “quit” a place without a future, a job without expectations, a family without understanding and, especially, a group of friends without hope.

ROP Type: Addiction Passage

ROP Cousins: Requiem for a Dream, Withnail and I, The Addiction, Shame, Drugstore Cowboy

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