Choose Life - 2017 [HD] [CC]

Trainspotting 2. The powerful monologue and updated infamous 'Choose Life' speech from T2 Trainspotting. English subtitles provided.

[@SapienFilmsTV]

This scene is so painful to see, specially when you were a teenager when the first Trainspotting cam out and now you are over 30. You can feel the pain of real life.

[@matuskollar4719]

Exactly

[@13madvillain]

On bloods and crips cuz

[@squamish4244]

I got off of a massive Valium dependency and I know the feeling. It was hell. It's strange that benzo addiction is so little known, particularly because benzos are legal and most benzo addicts are created by doctors. The crackdown has started though. Ten years too late for me, but oh well.

[@squamish4244]

I did manage to get off the Valium in a clinic. They prescribed me an anti-seizure drug called Gabapentin which binds to the same receptor sites exhausted by benzos in a slightly different way and keeps them from freaking out when the benzos are removed. The Gabapentin was not addictive. I got off that too. The problem is that after five years on Valium and then five years of being clean, my brain has had a hell of a time adjusting. I already had OCD and panic disorder beforehand so the benzos inflamed that to a ridiculous degree. I am getting better, it's just been incredibly slow. You might want to look into Gabapentin or similar medications like Oxcarbazepine, they can work wonders for killing withdrawal symptoms. I was taken off of 20% of the Valium in one night in detox and was terrified of the withdrawal symptoms but they never came. It was amazing. But much better if you can do it outside of a facility, then you can go slowly and your brain will adjust better. They pulled me off so fast my anxiety soared, as it was not well controlled by the Gabapentin. I hope that helps. You've done very well, I can't believe you didn't die mixing opiates and benzos in huge doses like that.

[@chocomanger6873]

Looks like you're looking back at the past through rose-tinted glasses. Sorry, but I had just as much suffering back then as now, if not more.

[@puglife8036]

The 1st choose life speech was full of optimism even though it was about achieving a mundane life. This speech is on the other side, the way down, full of regret and disappointment. Returning to what they were trying to escape in the 1st film. I think it's brilliant

[@dzigimk]

Choose a better future than having a mundane life.

[@samoladno1462]

Pug Life you got the point mate.Cheers

[@stephenmclean4142]

I scared the living shit out of me 🙈

[@karencalifano6132]

Yes, I agree. 1st speech they were also younger and full of hope. 2nd speech reflects the world today and is way more sad, cynical and fantastic!!!!

[@duanescot]

Agreed, the first speech had a more optimistic tone, as in the vocal tone, but the message was just as pessimistic, though it was tinged with the unknowing of just how depressing that life could be. The 2nd one just confirms that fuck, that mundane life was infinitely worse than we all originally suspected, monotony of our modern world CONFIRMED

[@thelewis2898]

"Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get get, instead of what you always hoped for" Damn that's painfully true...

[@juandavidpenaranda6136]

Settle for less and keep a brave face on it.

[@dbqp5211]

This makes me fuckin depressed man

[@geoffreyherrick298]

That hit a little too close to home.😳

[@ar4angelkz]

Rather than...

[@Kavena_music]

This is life and life is a sunrise and a sunset.

[@frinsklen]

This is why those 20 years were worth the wait

[@niahoad]

I wanted a born slippy remix. Underworld chose life and I did not get what I want.

[@RootedHat]

1996: "Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?"

[@TarunSharma-ll8ge]

Choose sharing this on Facebook and hope that someone somewhere cares.

[@patryklewandowski2099]

cares*, just saying.. xD #guardianoftheinternetspelling

[@TarunSharma-ll8ge]

Patryk Lewandowski Thanks!

[@Rominko17]

Of course we did that...

[@mkdy218]

A poor comment

[@myklxo]

No one cared :(

[@soflavio9274]

"choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for" this hits so hard

[@Kazim282]

"settle for less and keep a brave face on it"

[@Benton675]

Choose life, choose waking up everyday to a mundane job, for less then acceptable pay, choose eating two meals a day if lucky, only to be more hungry and more tired afterwards, choose losing your social life and friends slowly due to the long hours of the job, choose accepting that money will not only not make you happy, but you will never have enough to get close to happyness, choose settling for a less then stable relationship, knowing that your spouse will cheat on you the first chance given, choose a crappy apartment will crappier appliances to match, choose believing that it’s what on the inside that matters and that your personality is “unique and grand”, yes choose life.

[@soltaylor685]

Like settling for a woman you dont fancy and a life of unhappy marriage umder a masquerade of love

[@soltaylor685]

@@Benton675 brilliant. So true

[@Benton675]

@@soltaylor685 thank ya

[@Mcobo100]

Choose the high ground.

[@KeMeEscupaUnPollo]

rolf m8

[@geager2]

I somehow feel like your comment brings the whole franchise full circle xD

[@Ellen24493]

Mike Cobo if you have the strength to live there. the high ground comes with cost like everything else. good luck.

[@comanchio1976]

Ellen Moore Fair play, but the OP wasn't being that deep; it was a Star Wars/Obi Wan Kenobi reference

[@thomasyoung3268]

lol

[@stephanooblus]

I love how at the first half of the speech he indicts society then in the second half its like his grown self starts own up to his own shortcomings and that society is only half the culprit. Starts at victimhood and ends at self introspect and it's really really melancholic at how much it hits home in my life. So much time wasted either self indulging or worrying about my future that I wasted my best years. Of course, it was amusing at the time.

[@eyesauron]

Steve Nolan exactly now i see my dads face as he ages and i love my family more than ever but its just me

[@srdjpop6442]

Yess...

[@zed804]

well said!

[@sidewindersid4180]

Well said , well fucking said .

[@Patcul]

Indeed, the last half part are more about his own shortcomings. I found that part interesting as well.

[@tbug50]

4 years sober from heroin and I still can’t watch this scene without crying

[@pablonavas8808]

Way to go!!! keep it up bro!!!

[@MarchKatze]

Well done man. It’s a lonely world but you’ll get through it.

[@zerothehawkZ]

How are u bro

[@tbug50]

@Jonny Engine O…okay…? 😂 congrats

[@I_am_a_cat_]

I wish I quit 4 years ago. I'm quitting fentantyl right now and it's so painful.

[@CitizenMike]

One of the best and truest scenes for these times

[@avigutierrez8948]

It sure is😔

[@HerreraAlonso]

Still true

[@ruzgar1372]

@@HerreraAlonso It only got more realistic since this movie came out in 2017

[@squamish4244]

It seems like the speech starts out as a way to impress her with how 'deep' he is, but it ends up really affecting him. Amazing.

[@jasonwalton5409]

Veronica heard this and 'chose life' giving cash to spuds family

[@victorborof43]

This scene is a pure masterpiece. It hits all the right notes perfectly and I can't help but get chills. The way Boyle directs and edits is truly unique. I love that the things he tries to convey are not only said, but simultaneously showed in a beautiful and symbolic way. No other filmmaker dares to do that.

[@VillemarMxO]

Ivaylo Borov I was unsure if I was the only one that thought this scene was an absolute masterpiece in every sense. Thanks for confirming that there are others who feel this way too. You get it!

[@Leprutz]

There are a few who dare. But he is a true master in always finding a new way of directing a movie. He is truly original and inventive. He is one of the greatest in my opinion.

[@ChiefxASTx]

Ivaylo Borov he is the most consistent director in Hollywood imo. Always hits high and never less.

[@GortonIma]

This scene could have been an absolute disaster but it's perfect.

[@SzymonParys]

"No other filmmaker" yeah except for vince gilligan

[@DownWithThePlague]

The fact that the content of his monologue is so relatable kind of scares me. When you're young, you feel like you have all the time in the world and anything can be left to be done tomorrow. As times goes by, piling up your fuck-ups and moldering your unchanging life - except for the new wrinkles and dead eyes, of course - a sense of urgency bursts out of your chest, and you can only hope to finally have the fortitude to change before there any semblance of a soul is gone from your being. Happy 30th birthday.

[@DownWithThePlague]

I completely forgot I wrote that. Must've been in a foul mood.

[@TheTonyEntertainment]

@@DownWithThePlague lol

[@Rendell001]

Imagine having that revelation in your forties...

[@scottphillips2555]

@@DownWithThePlague i think it’s important though.

[@hisdudeness4537]

I think it doesn't matter when it hits but that it even hits at all. Some will go through their life, never realizing just how much of their misery was their own fault. Trainspotting and T2 really show that, no matter how many times you fuck up, or how insurmountable life seems, you always have opportunities to bounce back.

[@harrisonxavier5280]

"Choose disappointment. And choose losing the ones you loved, and as they fall from view a piece of you dies with them, until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone" bro that hit me

[@Duggy123]

Loved the 1st film's "Choose Life", but this one cuts deeper.....especially when from 1:49 onwards.

[@jonathansalguero513]

"Anyway... It amused us at the time."

[@squamish4244]

Now we've lived it bro. And I agree. 1:49 hurts like hell. It seems most of the people drawn to this video to comment have not had things go the way they wanted in life. For instance, maybe I have finally learned to stop sabotaging relationships when they are barely off the ground. Choosing never learning from your mistakes, but maybe finally breaking the cycle. Maybe they will develop a pill or something and we start living better for longer...and maybe we will. Give me back the 20 years of my adulthood that were stolen. Perhaps my youth, too. One can hope, anyway.

[@IanTaylorTravels]

Personally the deeper cuts come from 1:32 - I keep listening to this and I dint know how it makes me feel

[@philhahn]

It's once again another perfect beautiful part of this film and the passage of time... Especially for the generations who grew up alongside these films and aged with the sequel... It's the bitter reflection... I think anyway

[@bartekbielecki7898]

2:05 - 2:20 cuts the deepest for me. It's so true and it happens to everyone, and there's really nothing we can do about it.

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire]

The look in her eyes at the very end says it all. In that moment she understood Simon and Mark's regret, shame, and self loathing. She had known about it but hadn't understood it, in that second she realised the pain they felt when they looked in the mirror and hated what stared back, why they were obsessed with the past because they couldn't cope with the train wreck of a life that was their present self, as they trudged through life eaten up by the grief they felt at the death of their youth, their hope, and their lust for life. Before life may have been shit but they had been filled with carefree optimism and passion, but life stayed shit and they turned to cynicism to stay sane. They had been crushed by that one simple reality, that life isn't fair; and they hid from that fact in the welcome arms of rose tinted nostalgia and in the warm comforting embrace of hard drugs, and when people said to them "choose life" they answered "life didn't choose me"

[@avigutierrez8948]

😔🥺😢. Goddamn you’re right on that

[@returnedtomonkey8886]

when people said to them "choose life" they answered "life didn't choose me" well said

[@paulmcduff1930]

Well said brother ,peace 2 great movies there's no other sequel that does a film Justice than T2.

[@bettercalIsaul]

Damnnnnnn

[@lysandercasablanca7525]

Damn brother, your comment hits me. Great comment, so true, so confronting, so painful.

[@bethsleeman3491]

I've now seen this film 6 times and this bit breaks my heart a bit because by the end Renton is really trying not to cry

[@VirtuaSavage]

I cried because the end is too real for me ever since I lost my father,.

[@bethsleeman3491]

That's fair enough

[@MartinTobinPham]

Thanks for all the feedback on what I thought was a scene just too good to not upload. It was initially just intended for a FB share, but the comments and views popping up here took me by surprise. Great to see that it's hit people so strongly in their own ways. Spread the love all, and choose life ;)

[@bethsleeman3491]

Always choose life 😊

[@nickmendez3707]

Beth Sleeman he's such an incredible actor and this part was just made for him it's so perfect

[@VirtuaSavage]

That part where he says about "Choose disappointment and choose losing the ones you love, then as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone and there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead." really got to me... Cried like a baby. 2:05

[@duanescot]

That part gets me too, big time

[@bradydavis5791]

Pussy

[@TuanNguyen-ko9wz]

The image of his parents...

[@lepetitchat123]

This pain is guaranteed for everyone. No matter what their outlook on life is.

[@stefmgf8739]

VirtuaSavage same here buddy

[@manhucoramone]

How veronika treid to smile at the end but she still in shock hahaha

[@karazor-el6085]

She just got carpet-bombed by a man voicing his awareness of the consequences of his actions and his own desperation. I'd be at a loss for words, too.

[@youknowwhoiam2771]

Kara Zor-el I bet she was a little attracted to him. I would be

[@BipoIarbear]

She already lived it , this is when she decided she was going to steal that money

[@talisman13]

@@youknowwhoiam2771 The next line is her saying "I like you, Mark."

[@twobyfour]

The way this ALMOST burns into `Born Slippy` says all you need to know. There is no high anymore, no precipice, no tipping point, no rush, just disappointment.

[@mskidi]

Yesssssssss

[@commanderrussels2612]

This movie aged with me.

[@gavaka8622]

Commander Russels Can't agree more, watching the second film was like seeing friends again from your earlier after years apart. The nostalgia in T2 caused a tear or three.

[@Benton675]

Choose life, choose waking up everyday to a mundane job, for less then acceptable pay, choose eating two meals a day if lucky, only to be more hungry and more tired afterwards, choose losing your social life and friends slowly due to the long hours of the job, choose accepting that money will not only not make you happy, but you will never have enough to get close to happyness, choose settling for a less then stable relationship, knowing that your spouse will cheat on you the first chance given, choose a crappy apartment will crappier appliances to match, choose believing that it’s what on the inside that matters and that your personality is “unique and grand”, yes choose life.

[@chrisvandorpe3522]

Crawling out of a major depression ,this is my reminder to not make the same mistake again.

[@Renatokun]

does anyone else watch this scene every single day as I do?

[@magyarvandor977]

yep

[@drewstevens7543]

Yes, It's like I have OCD, I'm addicted to this and can't get enough !!!

[@michaelpanichella707]

Nearly. This is powerful, but I don't know if it helps anything.

[@sachyktothea]

Probably because it's the truth for most ppl that no one wants to admit.

[@voxsatan3736]

anyway..

[@BWMN69]

“Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you’ve done it all differently” hits home right there

[@SisyphusSRB]

Yes.. why am I this way.. is it truly a choice or did the enviornment and circumstances make me into the man I am today?

[@campbellrocksagain]

loved the ending where the room zooms out forever all the trains tripping passed

[@cameronadams1125]

CampbellRocksAgain and sick boy and Renton become friends again, that made me happy

[@Wired4Life2]

And Spud (as Irvine Welsh's surrogate) writes the story of the first film, the first of many successful literary works. :)

[@MrPeanutToes]

Cameron Adams sick boy and Renton becoming friends again disappointed me, they dip right back into the bad habits they were trying so hard to get away from

[@LadyFalcon17]

I honestly didn't have high hopes for this sequel, but I have to say, I fucking loved it. Just the nostalgia alone brought me immense joy. I admit, seeing the passage of time on the faces of these characters I've loved for so many years was a bit depressing, but hey...you're not a huge Trainspotting fan if you're a sunshine and rainbows kind of person. 🚦🚞💉

[@MartinTobinPham]

Too true. I've felt like we've been following them this whole time just in our minds, imagining would they would be up to now and this film was really great a giving us both where they've ended up and how, without just relying on flashbacks, nostalgia or lines and scenes from the first. I thought it was great

[@thenewyearsgrinch]

One of the only perfect sequels for this scene alone. A lesser filmmaker would have just mindlesslessly updated the speach to just be a gen-X shitlist raging against Kardashians and selfy culture. Instead it vears perfectly into middle aged regret that contrasts perfectly with the youthful optimism underneath the superficial nihilism of the first speach. Showing us that with age doesn't come wisdom. Just more anxiety.

[@greentaigo2552]

@@thenewyearsgrinch Yeah, even the mentioning of social media or obsessions with celebrities didn't feel like a "This generation is awful" type of speech. It's just an updated version of something that's always existed

[@Dynamic3DLtd]

One of my face scenes. I'm so glad they did not F this film up, I waited 20 years for it. And watched it 7 times in the cinema to make sure I did not miss this one in all its glory. Once I had the entire cinema to myself, yes I go to the pictures on my own cos I got there to watch a film, not with friends who playing with their fucking phones every 10 mins! Masterpiece.

[@markbleach5031]

You didn’t have to wait 20 years the book came out years ago and T3 has been out about 3 years now!!!….

[@cheatboy111]

@@markbleach5031 they probably: 1. Haven't read the novels but are a fan of the first film 2. Are a fan of the novels and the first film, and wanted to see how T2 continued the story, since it's VERY different from Porno. Intentionally so, since the director didn't like that book. Whatever the case there's a valid reason for watching T2. Both movies really, since they're masterpieces. Hell, I have no interest in reading the books myself since I'm not a big novel reader.

[@joshlicari5771]

Watching this at work, not wanting to cry - This sums up everything inside me right now, the soundtrack to my 41 year old life.

[@EatMyShortsAU]

Sorry to hear that man. Like is tough and apparently happiness decreases during your mid ages but increase again later in life.

[@superpecar6577]

Sum 41

[@mrfineeye]

1977. Choose life...

[@johnstriker480]

I'm the 100th to LIKE your comment

[@damilkk]

This scene alone makes this movie great imo.

[@helioman1986]

Second best fucking speech in all time, chose life....

[@IIvAnII1]

The first one being the one from T1 ?

[@CMDParodies]

Ivann LF Trump's victory speech 👀

[@user-hc1vg5md3z]

first best is from "The Great Dictator" i guess..

[@helioman1986]

its a very emotional one, every time

[@brock12003]

what no Henry V speech ?

[@NREAL01]

Such a powerful scene...perfect with Ewan McGregor accent....

[@Alphaville1984]

Yes!!

[@JackT13]

Choose watching this every year yet being absolutely powerless from slowly slipping into the shite, mediocre life that Renton denounces

[@eyesauron]

I come here every often to remind myself i am blessed to have my family

[@theflaneur6663]

The section with Diane made my heart melt. Was hoping they'd get back together.

[@thomas4982]

They edited out some scenes with her, search KZbin for T2 deleted scenes. One with Renton meeting her.

[@pumbaasfarts3415]

They did end up together again in the book actually.

[@nks80]

Billy Bob watch the deleted scenes where Mark stays at Diane's flat after he gets stitches from the slash from Begbie.

[@Ariadalf]

who s Diane ?

[@nks80]

Ariadalf how can you ask who Diane is?? If you've seen both trainspotting films especially the first one then you should know who Diane is!

[@Isaac1995]

Social Media, Smartphones, The Internet. This is what replaces Heroin. It streamlines Class A Information, data and bullshit. Suicidal thoughts, depression. Lust, anger, greed, gluttony and the worst of all...False Hope.

[@strobbedelutz]

nah i still prefer heroin

[@flyingcod14]

The complete irony of clicking a like on this post. ;o)

[@squamish4244]

We are all on here aware of the positives and negatives of social media and in this comment section I see people who are trying to make a connection and even present or former addicts trying to help each other. Social media has helped me find other people who were dealing with the same issues and so it is a tool that can be used for both good and bad. Hell, even opiates have two sides to them. They are the most amazing painkillers in the world and have given countless people in terminal illness painless deaths, and spared their families having to see their loved ones in pain. And they are also horribly addictive. The difference is severity. You are less likely to get completely sucked in, or start vomiting or sweating if it is taken away from you :P

[@squamish4244]

I think of this when I see people post endless pictures of their kids on Facebook, basically forcing you to like the post or otherwise you feel bad for not doing so. Many of them are seeking affirmation of their lives this way and getting a shot of dopamine to boot, even if they don't know it.

[@squamish4244]

Yes, it's unfortunate. But I'd rather people be hooked on social media than heroin.

[@seanpeter-budge1455]

My favourite part of this scene is Renton's laugh after Veronica impersonates Simon impersonating Connery. It sums up a major theme of this film: that the passage of time doesn't blunt or change who you are. Renton, 20 years on, loves that Simon still does the Connery voice.

[@ManlyManFace]

I still drop by regularly too watch this.

[@is2959]

"Sir, I will kindly ask you to leave this restaurant"

[@pennythug1473]

Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. 😢🤧

[@hunterdoesfootball1203]

One of the best speeches in a movie, ever!

[@Zennofobic]

saw this movie 2 days ago... went home and (ahem) acquired a copy and watched it 2 more times, got the OST loved 99 percent of it. Fuck the critics, to those who love T1 or really anyone with EXCEPTIONAL TASTE AND WIT they will love this movie too. I agree with the other posters, one of the best sequels ever made.

[@Zennofobic]

by the way my taste is impeccable and beyond reproach

[@sodden9732]

it was alright i guess

[@demented737]

Pretty sure this was critically well received.

[@adelajasinkova262]

2:07 the pain in his eyes and voice... Wow. Amazing actor and one of the best sequels of all time 👌🙏

[@lysandercasablanca7525]

Maybe he was not acting. Everyone, not only drug addicts, can relate to what he said about choose life. So maybe the person himself was relating to what the actor (also him) said.

[@electricrelaxationhd3952]

@@lysandercasablanca7525 the fact that so many people found resonance with this bit, tells you it connected with most of us who were young and watched the first film. I wonder how many takes he had to do without tearing up.

[@wizewizard1840]

This speech is the most brilliant thing ever. No other two and a half minutes manage to crush me and bring me to tears like this perfect piece of monologue.

[@Soki7000]

I choked up when I first saw this.

[@spider5600]

It just forces you to remind yourself how shit the world is sometimes. In fact why do you insist on still being the great seal, this sure as heck is not a world that deserves it you know. Just let Nyx do what it wants rain down the armageddon and get it over with already and you'd still have time to see Yukari or Aigis . I mean Id prefer Yukari but its your choice dude.

[@Despair505]

No, don't go with Yukari. Mitsuru it's where it's at!

[@timo7333]

"Choose disappointment" the way his voice trembles, amazing.

[@bigajay9834]

The last part of this speech where hes looking at his mother as he walks into the room talking about one day piece by piece your loved ones will be gone and there will be nothing left of you to call alive or dead hits hard big time. We breeze in and out of our own lives and minds in our own homes and one day your parents are gone & ya took them for granted. This speech is one of the greatest I've ever heard along with the turn in the music after he mentions choosing a drug cooked up in someones kitchen to escape it all. Its as poignant as it is beautifully melancholic!

[@kkshady]

Second best speech ever. Trainspotting is a part of my life now. Best sequel ever too

[@TheTonyEntertainment]

Raveen Kumar what

[@walesdoesntsuck6635]

1 year on and this still bothers me. What's the best speech mate

[@CrazycruxGaming]

what IS the best speech?

[@DorianCairne]

@@walesdoesntsuck6635 I assume he meant the first movie's version of the Choose Life speech.

[@Rfcpaul]

Bravheart is 1st. Trainspotting 2nd. I think...

[@joekochinski5591]

I downloaded this to my music folder on my phone and listen to this over and over when I go running. I feel like Mark, running and running to try to cope with a waisted life. There’s still a flicker of hope though. As long as I can keep pushing myself during a run I know that I’ll be alright.

[@blocpartyfan9771]

anyway, it amused us at the time

[@emilioconde8782]

It will be failure is your greatest asset. Failure is not the end it is a step in the right direction. Keep running and if you fall get back up and try again and again and again until one day someone sees your strength and authenticity and wants you whether it’s a cool job or romantically as long as you keep getting back up you will succeed

[@borris3768]

Wasted**

[@OnionsMakeYouCry9]

This sequel surpassed my expectations and scenes like this is what really makes it resonate with me. I love how it gets more painful as his examples go on, then it ends in an upbeat, "well it amused us at the time..." both these films are masterful examinations of the human condition imho over all else.

[@jakeleearmy200]

I feel like I’m the first half of this, and in the entirety of the speech from the first film, he’s talking about someone else, about the rest of society, and he’s the only one who can see through the charade. But as this speech goes on, and it starts to cut with scenes from earlier in the film, he realises he’s talking about himself, and it’s tragic to watch.

[@OnionsMakeYouCry9]

@@jakeleearmy200 very well put, exactly agreed.

[@niahoad]

My favourite movie from 2017

[@chicobond89]

Choose losing the ones you love, extends to the friends you hoped you would have to as you grew older. Lost three buddies in three different accidents. All while I was working in office. They were 38 and 35 years old. One of them two days after his birthday. Two weeks ago I had an emotional and mental breakdown during work. Life gives you hard lessons indeed. As you grow older, this really hits home. But we move on. Life goes on Choose life.

[@giovannivenditti4978]

I come back here every year to remind myself who I am, when I was born (1982) and what didn't actually worked in my life (and what really did). Masterpiece. True. Melancholic.

[@AviationTV]

2:17 you can see and hear the pain. His character is literally, indirectly saying to Veronica "I don't want to be led down the same old road, I don't want to live that life again."

[@joshmcleish4154]

Choose disappointment and choose losing the ones you love and as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them. Until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone. And there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead" What's so tragic about this part of the speech is that it's true for alot of us working class Scottish folk. It really captures the depressing truth for many of us and its in stark contrast to the original 'Choose Life' speech in Trainspotting 25 years before. Mark has been caught up in the moment and let his emotions and feelings about his life run free. It always catches me off guard Anyway, it amused me at the time.

[@kabukiwookie]

I can understand why people who weren't young adults in the mid '90s may give this scene a bunch of flack. "Choose Life" really was a late 80's anti-drug slogan, along with D.A.R.E... I remember making fun of D.A.R.E. in a similar way as Renton in the mid '90s. I was 24 when Transpotting came out. I was having a smashing time being fueled by alcohol, and drugs while being very much the arrogant, materialistic little f*ckers that we all were. This scene is about finally growing up. It's about the consequences of choices you make in your younger life, and its about getting to that certain age where you want to go back and make right what you did wrong the first go around, but you can't. I'm glad they waited 20 years to make this movie. T1 is a glimpse of life for many many of us Gen-xers in the mid 90's. T2 is a glimpse of our changed attitudes and ideas now.. I want a T3 in about 15-20 years. I want to see these characters story arcs close at that time, especially Begbie's.

[@MartinTobinPham]

Nailed my thoughts on the scene and desires for the future precisely. I'm surprised at some of the flack the scene/speech gets, but with something so heartfelt I guess you have to expect a divide in the audience. T3 in even 5 years, with lesser expectations and pressure, could present possibilities for a nice little story. A Begbie spinoff has already been put forward by Boyle as something more tempting, at least for the nearer future.

[@kabukiwookie]

MTP: IMHO any T3 movie has to revolve around the four main characters, and it has to be in 15-20 years as my generation reaches our "golden years". How does Renton, Spud, Simon and Begbie deal with irrelevance in a world that values the power of youth over the kick ass of experience? I want to see Renton with grand kids wondering how he wants to end it all. I want to see Spud living a life an author while being bored. I want to see Simon having health problems because he never really quit drugs till much later.. I want to see Begbie accepting himself (according to Robert Carlyle and Danny Boyle) and I want to see all four getting together one more time for one last Oceans 11 type caper before they all fade away. And I want to see a new "choose life" speech at that time that talks about my generations interpretation on it. "Choose life" meant different things in 1996 and 2017. What will it mean in 2037? A trilogy about my generation made over a generation. I really want to see that.

[@andreabosica4865]

kabukiwookie honestly. It would be amazing

[@victoriaseymour9142]

So do I but at 82 I think my chances are slim. I was overwhelmed by the brilliance of 1996 and 2017. Great movie making.

[@JasonSmith-qt2xk]

Kabukiwookie i agree its a powerful scene for those of us in our 20's at the time and doing the same things (i was doing the exact same things) and now looking back on it and the times we had and the people we lost. And being 20yrs older now and understanding life alot differently than then. Emotional scene and very well done

[@unlsoccer1]

Watched the first one when I was teen, Watched the second one when I am 39, and every f$&King sentence is so true that it deeply hurts.

[@rickyblyth6240]

I’m 39 tomorrow, this sequel made me feel nostalgic and really emotional.

[@MrRourk]

We need a post Covid Choose

[@galagalaxia6286]

Best statement in the entire film basically describes all the madness we have today

[@JuLie-jc1dq]

One of my best scene ever! Very powerful

[@EatMyShortsAU]

This is deep, as someone who went down the wrong path the chose to 'Chose life" this cuts keep..

[@cameronadams1125]

This came when it was so needed, one of the best sequels that ever was and this speech is so amazing and can touch everyone because it's a perfect summary of all that we are. Choose life.

[@dustincarlson5585]

Some times I need to hear this

[@chadwilliams9141]

I think this goes a lot deeper than many have commented we all get caught in some trap searching for happiness Relationships Drugs Trips Job Kids Something to feel human while everyday getting closer to the abyss.

[@gcjbhar]

"it amused us at the time" love it!!

[@richardwatkins1676]

If humanity gets to face it's own extinction, someone needs to be broadcasting this speech in as many languages as possible.

[@nickestone1]

Very powerful. A lot of people can identify with the raw emotion expressed here whether they have been addicts or not

[@garryntl]

Has to be the most accurate social commentary monologue ever - 2023.

[@ballantrae101]

when he says "what?" that has incredible power. God almighty, that is exactly how someone in their late 40's would say it. You can't believe they brought it up, it was also a big part of you, and you have so much emotion and thought invested in it, and it was a long ago part of you. Ewan, you nailed it.

[@AliG-bg3sl]

I think its the best movie dialogue ever. I love that the two films are 20 years apart.

[@joshphillips1526]

Its beautiful how he gets everything off his chest and then just slides back Anyway it amused us at the time

[@beunhaas102]

Having grown up with the first movie (which by now was ages ago) it is quite confronting part 2 is already 6 years old.

[@AxelCross]

The hardest monologue I've ever heard.

[@Mulde]

"I like you, Mark."

[@enigma7784]

This film spoke to me on so many different levels.a masterpiece.

[@gavinguitar2194]

Veronica is a diamond! Her expression is priceless, 'Simon said, choose life Veronica'. The speech is brilliant. So true for our times, becoming hard times.

[@citizenbobx]

I like how she said it channeling Sickboy channeling Connery, too :)

[@the_plague99]

Everyone needs to watch trainspotting, one of the most important films of the 20th century

[@TS50ER]

This is probably what finally made Veronica decide to go back home.

[@AlexVega138]

When I was a teenager the first monologue from the first movie made a lot of sense, and now at 32 y/o this new monologue makes me realize that now I am part of everything I wanted to escape.

[@harryhighpants2480]

Its giving me flashbacks

[@nks80]

Saw the first movie when I was a care free 15 year old & now I’m nearly 41 with the weight of life hanging on my shoulders

[@SarevokTTV]

Face of Veronica in the end is perfectly showing us how it was to live by Renton.

[@billyd8401]

The progression of this scene is amazing. The actress is simply gorgeous and her response to his dialogue really make this a great interaction.

[@SBB1337x]

Everyday after work when i reach my room, i light a cigarette and play this video. IT feels so good idk why.

[@VillemarMxO]

Because it's right, and because *you* get it. Cheers mate.

[@elijah420stuffs2]

This monologue speaks to me (33 years old guy), in a way that essentially says "You made your 20s, like it was fun and carefree, now you start to see clearer picture of society nowadays" which is pretty much how he describes. The use(and abuse) of Social Media, the urge to be acknowledged by the world (mostly by looks and likes) and all of that which is "poca sostanza e molta apparenza" (not much essence but lot of appearance). Now besides, very few good friends, some nice dogs and nature I feel the rest is pretty much fake, like I am living on a "Truman Show" movie.

[@dodson43]

Choose life, Choose fucking over your so called mates, choose not telling your family where you been for 20 years, choose having a existential mid-life crisis, choose going back to your home and thinking everything is going to be ok, choose not seeing your kids Choose life

[@DeadbrainLives]

Renton admits the kids are made up

[@BTTFMovie]

Well, saying "choose the same for your kids, only worse, and maybe tell yourself it's better that they never happened", is pretty much Renton saying that he regrets that he never had kids, and makes himself feel better about it by convincing himself that they would've been fucked anyway the rate this world is going.

[@craigfullilove-keen1279]

One of the finest pieces of acting in British history in my very humble opinion, that switch at the end 👏

[@Jamie-kv9eg]

Breathtaking scene. One of all time favourites. T2 is a masterpiece.

[@Jamie-kv9eg]

Thomas Roth 68 shut up mate

[@princessmorebucks4853]

Crying my eyes right now at this 😭😭

[@wilsonjaksetic6009]

I remember watching this scene over and over again when I was in Rehab, back in Feb 2018. Now, I’m just over 2 years clean from Heroin and I’ve never been happier. Still brings me to tears.

[@micaeladelgado76]

Powerful monologue indeed. One of the best parts of the movie.

[@wilsonjaksetic6009]

Watched this clip whilst in rehab for using Heroin in Feb 10th 2018 - 4 years later, still sober. But this always brings me to tears.

[@John-Doe-Yo]

Why?

[@wilsonjaksetic6009]

@@John-Doe-Yo why does it bring me to tears? Because the scene and the raw emotion always strikes home, and I feel that Ewan’s acting is masterclass in this movie

[@John-Doe-Yo]

@@wilsonjaksetic6009 ah I was just curious. I used to keep this scene in a playlist and it would be like a motivator for me.

[@wilsonjaksetic6009]

@@John-Doe-Yo same here - but I also find it so raw that it’s hard not to cry lol Then again, when I first saw this scene, I was in rehab for the first time and at complete rock bottom. Glad to be 4+ years sober now!

[@John-Doe-Yo]

@@wilsonjaksetic6009 nice 🤙🏽 good for you. Keep it up. Cheers mate.

[@pikiwiki]

i finally get what Trainspotting was about. What a movie

[@duo29fam18]

Obiwan drops some truth !

[@brandoncollins1225]

This scene made me reevaluate my situation and helped me come to the conclusion that my marriage was over, and that I was done "settling for less."

[@jimbertido7762]

Brandon Collins Maybe you don't deserve any better.

[@brandoncollins1225]

Jim Bertido My ex is a cheating, drug-addicted liar. She told her work her Dad died so she could get out for a week. She fucked a 50 year old guy for pills. She told people I had a heart attack just to get out of going to see some friends. She was in rehab 3 times. I gave her 8 years to get her shot together. Yeah, I deserve better. Hell, I HAVE better now.

[@jimbertido7762]

Brandon Collins Fair enough, but addiction is a disease.

[@brandoncollins1225]

@@jimbertido7762 I thought of replying to this comment 2 years ago and decided not to. I just noticed it again because I decided to watch this clip again for some reason. All i can tell you is this, you're right. It is a disease, but when you love someone through their dark times and give them 100% support in the hopes that they will get better, only to find that they aren't capable of it and your best years and the finite amount of resolve and love you have for them has been depleted you're left with one choice; cutting your losses. There will always be a part of me that loves her, but there was a limit.

[@Scott-bh2qb]

@@brandoncollins1225 I hope it all worked out, Brandon.

[@felipedessico]

best monologue of this century so far

[@psifla99]

I was stunned into silence by this in 2019. I’m crying at the start of 2021.

[@nathanruddy8968]

CHOOSE LIFE

[@FCK_90]

One of the best film monologs I've ever seen

[@DavyCR88]

I've lost both my parents in my mid 30's - the part from 2.07 on is very accurate.