Trainspotting
Movie • 1996 • Crime
ReportMark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
This movie contains 49 potentially triggering events.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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[Spoiler]
Tommy's kitten is shown alone after his death and was neglected beforehand. We're told it was fine once it was found.
Tommy's kitten is shown alone after his death and was neglected beforehand. We're told it was fine once it was found.
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no mental illness is specifically mentioned, but some of their actions could be attributed to mental illness
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A baby is neglected and dies.
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Abuse
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Neglect is a form of abuse
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There's a graphic moment where a woman is hit with a glass in a bar.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Child neglect.
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Addiction
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Seccers
If you're asking this trainspotting probably isn't for you.
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Is there addiction?
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This movie is about heroin addiction.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Begbie
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Animal
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Are animals abused?
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A bull terrier is shot with a BB gun in the rear.
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Does a cat die?
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Tommy’s kitten is fine.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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forufourfour
No-one is drugged unknowingly or against their will
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Is there pedophilia?
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mileyxilsa
The main character unknowingly has sex with a minor
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Is someone held under water?
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mileyxilsa
There is an abstract scene where the main character imagines going inside a toilet
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Begbie is a violent and ill tempered alcoholic who starts bar fight or sucker punches and beats people down
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Is someone restrained?
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TheCassandraComplex
Main character’s parents restrain him to prevent him from seeking heroin.
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Is someone buried alive?
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forufourfour
Renton hallucinates descending into a grave-like hole in the ground but is not covered over
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Is there body horror?
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TheCassandraComplex
Main character hallucinates a deceased baby crawling on the ceiling and turning her head around 180 degrees to look at him.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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TheGrandDisciple
The main character possibly has a seizure while is O.D.ing on Heroin
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Renton is pulled and dragged down stairs by his legs but he doesn't fall
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Does someone fall to their death?
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No, but there is a scene where the main character is standing atop a brick wall and seems to consider jumping off.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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TheGrandDisciple
A dead and slightly decaying baby is shown on the camera. Dead at least a couple of days to a week. It was graphic and the camera pans across her at least twice. She's shown in the same state later crawling across the ceiling during a withdrawal hallucination
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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TheGrandDisciple
In a sence. Renton is forced into breaking his sobriety amd injecting a batch of heroin. So he sacrificed his sobriety
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Does someone die?
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forufourfour
[Spoiler] Tommy dies offscreen from Toxoplasmosis with AIDS complications
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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This movie is about heroin addicts, there is an overdose scene
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Are there jumpscares?
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Not a jumpscare per se, but still: the protagonists withdrawal-induced hallucinations make him see a baby crawling on the ceiling whose head spins around Exorcism-style before it suddenly drops onto the camera.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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cassandrasaurus
Quite explicitly, someone has explosive diarrhea and is soiled.
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Does someone vomit?
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calvie
No one v*ms in this film. There is two scenes where gagging is heavily involved, but no v*m imagery or sound.
The first scene is toward the beginning when a character is searching desperately for a bathroom and begins gagging on the way. Later, the same character emerges from water and spits out water, but no v*m.
The second scene with gagging is where a person goes to bed rather intoxicated and wakes up, gagging about what they did to the sheets.
The first scene is toward the beginning when a character is searching desperately for a bathroom and begins gagging on the way. Later, the same character emerges from water and spits out water, but no v*m.
The second scene with gagging is where a person goes to bed rather intoxicated and wakes up, gagging about what they did to the sheets.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Mark Renton has an on-screen poop in 'The Worst Toilet in Scotland'. You see him from the front, and there is graphic sound. He then fishes around in the toilet bowl sludge, having dropped something down, before falling in. The entire bathroom is also incredibly grim, as expected.
There is also a later scene where Spud soils the bed at a girls house. The soiled sheets are shown, but the actual event is not.
There is also a later scene where Spud soils the bed at a girls house. The soiled sheets are shown, but the actual event is not.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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Not particularly, however Begbie does describe meeting a trans woman at a club and being shocked and disgusted when he realises she is trans. No more comment is made after this.
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Loss
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
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Someone dies of AIDS
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Are needles/syringes used?
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many of the scenes involving syringes (mostly filled with heroin) being injected into the different characters, show close ups of the injections
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no cutting but more of self destruction
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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forufourfour
Three scenes in which the main character hallucinates due to heroin withdrawal or overdose. The first occurs when he has to put his hands in a filthy toilet and imagines diving into it and swimming in the ocean. The second when he hallucinates descending into a grave - much of the following sequence is shown from his point of view with the edges of the hole bordering the screen. And the third after he is locked into his bedroom by his parents - this is a long scene in which the dimensions of the room warp and he hallucinates a baby crawling across the ceiling and falling onto him, and visits from his friends which could be real. This is the most difficult to tell from reality.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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forufourfour
Renton mentions suicidal thoughts in the abstract at least once but no-one seriously threatens to do so
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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mileyxilsa
When the main character is going through withdrawal, there are certain parts that could be claustrophobic
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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kyurem336
A few scenes take places in nightclubs
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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debora
the main character narrates some parts and talks to the audience
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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forufourfour
Characters watch people in the park through binoculars
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Pregnancy
Are there babies or unborn children?
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TheCassandraComplex
Baby frequently seen throughout the film, both alive and dead. The main character hallucinates the dead baby crawling on the ceiling in the throes of heroin withdrawal.
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Are there abortions?
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cassandrasaurus
No. However (SPOILERS) an infant (about six months old) dies from neglect and shown looking very much dead.
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Does someone miscarry?
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No. However (SPOILERS) an infant dies from neglect and shown looking very much dead. Might be upsetting for someone who has gone through a stillbirth or late miscarriage to see this.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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TheCassandraComplex
Not really but someone is called a “fat c*nt” as an insult.
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There is a scene where a cis male character (Begbie) meets a trans woman at a club and they are later making out in the back of a car, at one point when Begbie reaches up her skirt he feels her genitals and quickly withdraws and acts horrified/disgusted, but no further violence is depicted or implied
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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After Begbie's encounter with a trans woman, he tells Renton "I'm no a fucking buftie."
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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SiRenfield
A man has a relationship with an underage girl although he isn’t aware of it when they first meet and is presented as an “oh f***” moment when he learns the truth but it’s still a huge plot point
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Sex
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No incest but there is a sexual relationship that is implied to be pedophilic (the older partner is in his early 20s, the younger partner is around 14-15). Not that this is an excuse, but the sexual aspect of the relationship is initiated by the younger partner and while the older partner expresses hesitance/discomfort when he finds out her age, she insists on having it continue and threatens to blackmail him.
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Is there sexual content?
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Graphic sex scenes in one part of the movie. There is a penis in full view in several parts
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a stroke?
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TheCassandraComplex
A character gets toxoplasmosis and has a stroke. Mentioned only, not shown.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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Jessie_1904
people living in heroin houses
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Seccers
Open to interpretation.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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He's not hit by a car, a car slams on it's breaks and he rolls across the hood on his back
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Jessie_1904
at the start of the movie a car breaks to avoid hitting the main character
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Is someone hit by a car?
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pumpkinattack
The protagonist is hit by a car at the beginning of the film.
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Violence
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Does someone drown?
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However there is an underwater scene.
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