Trainspotting - Final Part (Original)

choose life..

[@LiebenMusik]

My eyes water up every time I watch this. The way he delivers this is so powerful, it's as if he just summed up what life is in about 59 seconds.

[@pedrinhovilleda]

Dammmm me.too. just cryin'

[@dystopian_1]

Me too

[@konradkaffar4882]

Word is bond...... word is bond 🤟🏾🤟🏻🙏🏻

[@metulski737]

You said it best.

[@garyrouyea3450]

And then that music...I never, after all these years, knew that was Damon Albarn...

[@wowsuchname1939]

‘Getting by, looking ahead, the day you die’ that line always always makes me choke up

[@joostvoorspaamm9304]

Kinda torpedoes that one in T2 "Choose Life" speech.

[@chikari123]

I love how this film wasn't just about the addiction of drugs, it was about the addiction of choosing not to live and the ending just proves it. Renton's words are so inspirational and I love looking at this when I'm feeling bummed out, it reminds me that living is such a great thing :) Edit: coming back to this as an alcoholic lol. It’s 2023, life was so much easier when I thought I had control. Edit 2: Thanks for the encouraging words guys. I’m 31 days sober!!! If a shithead like me can do it anyone can. Best of luck to you all and I swear the next update won’t be a relapse lmao. Edit 3: 100 DAYS SOBER BOYSSSSSS!!!!! 5/17/23 LETS GET IT!!!!!!! Final edit 12/31/23: I relapsed in October but got back on the horse and ended this year out sober. I looked at sobriety as an option and punishment, a freedom that I can no longer engage in or a restriction and a fairness I was never given (I was coerced into drinking my an abusive partner). It was hard to grieve this, but more importantly I didn’t know I was grieving my past self. Whatever brought you to addiction let yourself grieve who you were, what you’ve been through, and the routines that surrounded your addiction. Let yourself grieve and let yourself feel beyond the numbness. Be kind to yourself, sobriety isn’t a race and you have to do it for the right reasons. I chose to genuinely live, because I realized my life was worth living. This time last year I was piss drunk sarcastically waving in the new year, I thought I’d be dead before Christmas. Something clicked one day that I didn’t just want to be sober to get my life back on track, but because I want to learn to love myself and give a shit about me for once. Failure happens, but damnit if an autist with adhd and horrible trauma can look in the mirror and say “you ain’t half bad,” so can you. This monologue means the world to me, right now I have 25 dollars to my name and not a single thing of ownership but I’ve never felt so present than I have now. Thank you for all the well wishes and I wish you all luck on your new life. You got this, we all fucking do!

[@scottishlad3796]

That reason alone is why it is one of my favourite films. you don't have to be addicted to smack or drugs to relate to the characters few idiots out there think that trainspotting is about heroin and junkies but in fact there is a lot more meaning to it

[@chikari123]

agreed!

[@leon9021]

I always saw the ending as a sort of "there is no real way to live a life" type of one. I just think the amount of things he says and how he says it makes you think if they are important or not. I was so sure that he would say " just one more shot" in the end and was kinda disappointed when he didnt.

[@stephenlehmensich]

That is exactly what I feel too.

[@leon9021]

Stephen Lehmensich About whos comment?

[@rickybeltran1216]

Who else here smiled when spud got his money cut?

[@qw0wp2]

+Ricky Beltran That was the perfect way to end the film. So yes it always brings a smile to my face

[@forever.endeavor]

Ricky Beltran better question who didn't lol it was the best feeling cause everyone loved spud

[@UpWithTheBirds23]

I was so glad he did that for spud... until I saw T2 and he blew it all on smack... :(

[@IHyprox]

Who does not? :D

[@siphonophores]

I was happy that Spud made the cut but was kinda sad because everyone knows that he's a junkie and would probably just spend it on heroin which exactly what happened in T2.

[@sharpskinhead6977]

After this he joined the Jedi Academy.

[@bajista159]

"What if: Obi-wan bought the Deathsticks."

[@bat51]

choose the high ground

[@eriktatos]

IM DEAD 💀

[@angelantonio1074]

After this Amazing movie , he only chose shit movies 😢

[@pauld4355]

There is no scene in any movie that hit me as hard as this. "I am a bad person"

[@benashworth7653]

well, almost every addict hates what they are doing..we ALL have had these moments

[@4idenn]

This hits me so hard because he is me rn...

[@slumsofshaolin6396]

Truth, since '96 always remember that line.

[@ulrichkristensen4087]

Renton is a narcissist, but maybe he will change, dont think so😃

[@nepntzerZer]

he basically killed tommy. renton is a pos

[@rebreh1029]

I think the movie suggests that both life-styles are empty. You can choose a quick death in heroin, a drug that makes you lose sight of what is real, or you can be apart of the materialistic culture which is a drug. Both use lifestyles depend upon a product to make the user forget about their lives.

[@dgenerated]

💯

[@andeace23]

Just saying it's not just about heroin, it's about walking away from toxic friendships

[@organicketchup5171]

That's profound, man. I like that. That resonates.

[@robsonparker4379]

reason why this is my favourite film? this one minute scene. pure perfection, Danny Boyle and ewan mcgregor nail it

[@Jasonificatiation]

it's the culmination of the film. It is bringing the entire film together into this one minute. You have good taste ;)

[@robsonparker4379]

+Jason McCann cheers! absolutely love films that people around my age don't like haha!

[@brunobsantini]

It's a global orgasm of human transcendence, it's a fridge magnet for modern society.

[@Tunpulaattori]

Reason why this is my favourite film? There is no reason. This is Trainspotting.

[@davidleethompsoniii8263]

By stealing you can be happy..... And get all the cool things from civilization... Appreciated the ending it was unique for the credits they took the pictures of the people and then put their names underneath them!!! Another perfect!

[@zyxwut321]

This scene is a good summation of why many people use in the first place. Sobriety means waking up to the trite, materialistic, asinine, shallow, greedy society we live in and having to pretend that fitting into it really matters.

[@robynsegg]

This ending... Perfect. Always makes you wanna grow up.

[@AbinamiLivingJamala]

In this ending scene, he's crossing a bridge; a metaphor, I think, for his transition from drug addiction to the 'real' life. Notice he's also going with the flow of traffic. I think that also represents his decision to live life like everyone else from now on. "I'm gonna be just like you" Too bad 'normal' life is a mundane script that terminates in the grave. "Looking ahead till the day you die"

[@tlalcua]

Beautiful comment

[@MidMo4020]

Great comment! I didn’t really notice those things before but I can definitely see how it affects the feel of the scene. Plus.. at the opening scene he’s running and is almost taken out by a car.. running against the traffic

[@jjk9374]

Waterloo bridge - my favourite

[@chriscorbett2947]

@@MidMo4020good observation

[@royale9205]

Wow, I always interpreted it as he gave in to his worst impulses once again and was doomed to slip back into old habits, the monologue from the beginning made it seem as if he had come full circle

[@jill5917]

I felt so bad for Spud when he got cut by Begbie, but it felt great when Renton stole the money and you see Spud get overjoy when he sees his share of the money. I'm so glad they show that last part because it's so rewarding.

[@wentoneisendon6502]

@Yeah Boi what did ya think I'd do with £4,000, I was a fuckin JUNKIE

[@gwang-mu9251]

My mother grew up in the 1960s south korea, post the korean war. She says one of her favorite days was her birthday because my grandmother would put a fried egg on top of her rice lunch.

[@mmmamamamysharona]

It’s the best comment anyone has ever written. Best reply ever.

[@tkx86]

24 days sober off Alcohol and Amphetamines.

[@Berserk764]

tommy 💖💖💖

[@oops_i_did_it_again4383]

You got this man

[@A_Box]

Hope you are still on the clean path.

[@lukemchugh719]

Hopefully you are still clean even if you're not, just keep trying you got this.

[@LSC132]

I just hope you're still doing well my man ✊🏼

[@zachmurphy7454]

This ending is so inspirational, Renton finally chose life , brilliant film!!

[@KevenThePuma]

+onlysmoketobacc ;) he's sober in the sequel so I believe he truly meant what he said. He just screwed a lot of people to get there

[@silversnail1413]

Rents is (relatively) sober in the sequel but is still a little bit crooked. He definitely cleaned up his act but is still a bit of a selfish, arrogant twat.

[@dantearias2182]

69 likes

[@Sennesation]

Chills every time I hear/see this ending.

[@AleksandreBurchuladze]

The scene, the song, the vibe, the ending.

[@serotoninape8549]

The first time i saw this movie the ending hit me like a bullet because of its sheer power and rhetorical impact.. Favorite movie of all time

[@placebo5466]

"I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is, that I'm a bad person." Real.

[@Braydog101]

The way the music and monologue sync together with the end title card is beautiful

[@jackson12016]

I get goosebumps every time it shows Trainspotting.

[@versus8035]

Amazing movie. This ending is something about poetry, I'm Italian and in my own language it sounds good. But in English... Brilliant, I felt obliged to learn it by heart

[@ariggs7]

the hardest part about getting sober for me was not withdrawing, that's the easy part; even as unbearable as that was, the daily pain of trying to twist and fold oneself back into the general molding of societies normal is painful in a way I cannot explain. I drunkly laughed at the strangely self restricting patterns of norm that guided all. I was a slave to dope, but felt free from the indoctrination of the norm. Drugs, inspired for a time, but would eventuality twist my very being into a sub human monster if more and I, me mine. Reawakening from such a state to find that you had been an outright menace to society and had fallen so far off the trail of progress, it would be decades before you caught up enough to start to seem normal from the outside. It is a funny thing to be in a constant state of mild panic chasing an ideal that you know has no meaning to you though knowing that achieving the title of normal is better than being less than, unsuccessful, unproductive, different. ( yes yes, we are all special and unique persons, he likes blue and she likes red, he likes pop and the other R&B, the different I mean is one that is unsafe and scary as it falls too far from the mean and mode of acceptable choices ).

[@suckmyrooster]

you hit the nail on the head there. that's how i think when i see this scene. remembering the fear of will the "norm" accept me or will i even accept the "norm" again. that's why i rewatch this scene and remind myself of all I've experienced.

[@mgmegt5920]

I love this well said considering early sobriety, little meeting in a KZbin comment

[@tlalcua]

Beautiful and so well said

[@brock12003]

The tragedy is that the white light at the end of the tunnel that he describes is its own kind of prison. So he's getting outta the frying pan and into the fire. A very tragic film.

[@christopherfargere1820]

Goosebumps... I must have seen that movie 25times by now and I sometimes just happened to watch the whole movie to get the full effect of this mind blowing ending scene...

[@mrsgainer78]

One of the best movie soundtracks ever. I still have my CD that I purchased in '97.

[@mickystormont]

goes perfect with tune

[@wilsonwijaya.design]

Ewan Mcgregor's best role. Totally!!

[@mgmegt5920]

Sober 5 years. I got accepted into my dream private school, doing it all on my own. So this scene hits really hard, super relatable I'M CHOOSING LIFE BABY.

[@MrNevillebamshoo]

How can I do the same 😢

[@mgmegt5920]

@@MrNevillebamshoo Google a meeting in your area, raise your hand and tell them you're new!

[@coochiecritters56]

Choose your future, choose life. I have it as a tattoo

[@scunnyboybenji]

Fucking goosebumps.

[@RDigi]

How long you been clean bro?

[@coldbattery]

the ending makes me want to give it a stand up ovation

[@modjo4life]

I had goosebumps when he said "I'm gonna be just like you"

[@travjt2]

Bro was rapping for a moment to the song beat 💀

[@hnavkumar2268]

This movie inspired us to do all kind of crazy shit as teenagers.. but now only one moment stays..' I am gonna change'.. choose life :-)

[@ChipCums]

He cut off his friends who were bad influence and moved the fuck on. Can’t blame him

[@Kingdomplains]

Such an epic scene. Gives me chills every time. Absolutely brilliant.

[@jonisafreak3]

The music is absolutely perfect.

[@Balalita]

This ending is magnificent, makes you think about life...and Spud getting the money makes it even better :)

[@tamhaswoods9056]

Just too bad he spent the lot on skag :(

[@alexanderblacker]

Goosebumps everytime i listen to this speech, i choose life! Hope you do as well - stay safe

[@20062882]

Perfect end to an amazing movie. BRILLIANT!

[@towlertechproductions5120]

I remember paying an off duty security guard a tenner to get into Glastonbury in (I think) 99 and seeing Underworld playing Born Slippy. If only we'd realised then that would be the peak of humanity.

[@jovovich]

this monologue give me chills everytime I hear it!!!! is the best!!!!

[@j.r5159]

This scene has stuck with me for decades, I love the moments in life when I don’t know where I’m going but I ain’t staying here, every time it happens I think of this scene, that track blaring in my head.

[@Slash69ify]

Getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.

[@williamrissen5065]

This hit hard and puts a smile on your face when you have what he mentions at the end...

[@zyxwut321]

None of Renton's reasons (or reasons I listed) are necessarily reasons to get high, stay high, or not get sober. They're simply reasons people CHOOSE to check out of society. Some people are more sensitive to the ways the world sucks than others and feel overwhelmed in their inability to change it. It's just good to get a take on why people have mixed feelings about sobriety, even if it's good for them and even if it's what they want.

[@Ikaros23]

The problem for the junky is hedonistic adaptation. Even beeing a junky becomes a habit/rutine and boreing. And the fact that it`s 99% of the times are underlying issues like trauma/abuse/neglect from childhood that is behind the addiction. It never was a escape from life or rutines. The risk and the thrill was all for nothing

[@tsunamiboimonkeyman]

I watched this 12 years ago when I was 20. Wanting all these things. I got them all now.

[@johnkennedy1939]

do you still want to have them? any regrets?

[@EarthGeographicalRecon]

Proceeds to drink white wine heavily every night for thousands of years...

[@Kingcharles96]

Gives you the chills everytime

[@squamish4244]

This movie really nails drug addiction and how it is a metaphor for of how all of society is addicted. I never imagined I would be a drug addict but then I was and now this all means a lot more to me than the first time I saw this movie.

[@nestrac]

Nah.. A really bad person would not leave 2k for a mate...

[@fakegmale4648]

Carsten Langbo it’s 4k, right?

[@princessconsuela2828]

he knew he’ll use it for more scores

[@wartortle577]

This was touched upon on in the sequel. Mark used this to justified that he wasnt an entirely bad person. Spud lashed out saying he was a junkie, what did he think he was going to use that money for?

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

He's not only refering to him backstabbing his friends by stealing the cash, but generally throughout the movie, he was a shitty guy so it's actually a growing moment when he admits it and is ready to change.

[@MariamEkizashvili]

Actually in the book he didn’t

[@coochiecritters56]

This movie helped me get sober from meth and heroin

[@jesusisking3722]

Great job mate

[@thedoctor2871]

He makes a basic life sound awesome.

[@lindyblu99]

Amazing to watch this, especially when you've been there,done it and worn the T-shirt. Well now I've chosen Life and its f***g BRILLIANT!!!

[@UiDClutch]

im glad spud got his share he was pretty innocent didnt do anything to deserve that

[@jasonh.8754]

This ending seems so miserable now, society finally captured him and tied him to the treadmill. How times have changed.

[@inquisidorjulian]

Try to be the übermensch, that's better

[@joostvoorspaamm9304]

1999. Club Twilo NYC. Paul Van Dyk residency. Club is packed to gills. 3AM rolls around and in the middle of a techy banger he drops "Born Slippy". When you hear "club blown up" - that's what that was. I saw k-d out psychonauts awaken from their sunken slumber upon the steps and start to thrash about like background dancers in Michael Jackson's Thriller. What a time...

[@thecarpentershow8507]

a total flip from the intro... life.

[@thebandit0256]

Then he becomes an Jedi

[@Pintoleite3]

NO way! I was minding my own business while thinking of the movie then i remembered this last part and i thought to myself this really cool comment, man i gotta go on youtube to comment "and then becomes a Jedi..." exactly what you said LOL, good man

[@AlexAvila-hw3ys]

One of the best movies made in my lifetime

[@mandyfox9376]

Proper 90s classic love it take mebacl to the 90s when the world was still real ✌️

[@BRITBABE1983]

LOVE IT, LOVE HIM, LOVE THE TRACK! EVEN 15 YEARS ON! :D

[@Br1annaWuzHere]

God, I could watch this 1000 times.

[@leemurray9330]

This monologue is fucking incredible

[@hazardous1990]

they couldn't have picked a better tune to go with this scene

[@travelingalaxies9282]

How I'm feeling right now...I use this as inspiration in the morning.

[@bc454irocz89]

Its funny because I feel like this, but I have the good PAYING job (factory worker life), the mortgage, the pension, health dental, the cars, the bikes, the big fucking TV and stereo but no family or wife which is what I want.. but what is all that other shit but a bunch of material bullshit? I want to go to college and live in Europe I can't stand being a prisoner in this tiny little world surrounded by these yoyos anymore.. I want to be free and LIVE life but I'm too afraid to escape

[@NicoLReino]

Where do you live?

[@mikecasa6864]

I’m 2 year sober and this still sums up my goals in life. Just being a normal fucking being!

[@markosoft92]

I think, this the one of the most authentic, and honest movie ever. Beautiful, awesome final scene. A little bit "me." I love it. Thank you Danny B.

[@free322001]

I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. Now I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you. The job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electric tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.

[@rachaelskidmore7647]

I chose life,love this to anyone out there who has battled addiction had came out or is struggling to come out choose life ❤

[@shelleybeach-fp2kv]

Loved trainspotting

[@ella9063]

So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false The truth is that I'm a bad person But that's gonna change I'm going to change This is the last of that sorta thing And I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on Going straight and choosing life I'm looking forward to it already I'm gonna be just like you The job The family The fucking big television The washing machine The car The compact disc and electrical tin opener Good health Low cholesterol Dental insurance Mortgage Starter home Leisure wear Luggage Three piece sweet DIY Game shots Jump rope Children Walks in the park Nine to five Good at golf Washing the car Choice of sweaters Family Christmas Index pension Tax exemption Clearing the gutters Getting by Looking ahead The day you die.

[@dahleeeng]

Well, it can be all bad if you let it define who you are. Or, you can define who you are. Whatever the hope is in your heart, follow that. Don't listen to the naysayers, and in the wise words of my daddy, when things got tough, he'd say, "Don't let the bastards get you down." Always do your best and continue on life's journey with gusto! Love you Dutch❤️

[@nadiapaulin9586]

I just watched this movie. Loved it.

[@Omnimongrel]

My favorite part? "I'm going to be just like you."

[@zyxwut321]

Nah, sobriety itself is just not using. What can suck is sometimes when you sober up and see that so many people and society have such shallow values and imagination about the world. I'm glad you think the character in the movie is so positive and has made peace with the world and all the people in it. Not sure Renton is at peace with the world as you seem to think he is. He's sober for today and seems to have continuing conflicting feelings about that like many recovering addicts.

[@alexscott4684]

This came out before i was born but my favorite film

[@judygayle6812]

DITTO , WE ARE HERE

[@Wmiguel13]

after this he decides to become a jedi

[@AManavian]

Looking ahead till you become a Jedi

[@Reason4Termination]

Glad I watched this way back as a teenager :D

[@johnPaul-qn3dg]

From a time when they made films, they don't anymore.

[@gannonfox1792]

I love this cause as someone who knows the depravity of addiction, it’s not hard to get off the junk, it’s hard to stay off.

[@Ikaros23]

it`s only hard when you are still brainwashed ( sounds harsh but it is the truth) to think it ever gave you anything more than a short term gratification. Try reading Allen Carr`s " easy way to quit marijuana " and " Easy way to quit cocaine" , it may be a game changer for you if you still fear that you will use again.

[@zwimlil7731]

That one of my favorite scene of movie alway have a strong impact on me

[@igorbojanic6119]

it is funny when he says 'i'm gonna be just like you' because i am still an addict.I didnt choose life yet Rent Boy

[@Ghostsfan420]

Obi Wan quitting Death Sticks

[@falstaffswims]

Poor, sweet, pliable Spud--I love to see him get his share in the end. And the fact that Begbie's totally fucked over is the icing on the cake.

[@Ace95051]

this movie is sooo amazing, best ending i have ever seen and also this movie has a the best intro too.

[@dwightschrute491]

"I'm going to be just like you."

[@genedalefield]

"Clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die." I can't help but understand "gutters" as veins. That as much as this is a promise to those finding sobriety, it also describes those that "choose life" in staying on narcotics. Who knows, I could very well be reading too much into it. But it seems purposeful that those are the finishing words.

[@itsjayjay9469]

One of the greatest scenes!

[@mercury_6668]

oh my god what conversation love the final is all the film here. thanks god l am clean till the end of my life

[@kyra2017]

The movie final scene is better than the book one because of what he says and the money he leave for Spud. But they're both masterpieces.

[@michaelcabral5256]

What it is about showing the tile of a movie with great music at the end that makes it awesome. (See Gangs of NY, Lion King and Moana)

[@Hoboinaboxdestroyer]

Powerful words.

[@xversacex]

really wish it wasn't cut off at the beginning, but thanks a lot for this upload. everybody else posted the intro, or the endings in other languages. T__T

[@evangelicae_rationis]

Summary of this comment section: “Perfect” “Goosebumps” “Feeling” “Brilliant” “...Of All Time” “Inspirational” “Choose Life” “Experience” “Best ... I've ever seen”. This is when you understand that a movie changed a whole generation.