Trainspotting is a adaption of Irvine Welshe's cult novel. Both the book and film give open minded audiences an insight into the struggle between the escape of drugs and the realism of the struggle whilst sober, poor and jobless. We follow the Anti-Hero and protagonist, Mark Renton who tried to escape the grip of heroin. The journey he takes in order to get away from the grip of heroin is similar to that of many other people. He can almost be seen to be a representative of the struggle people on drugs in the UK.
The film is based around on the different stages of getting away from all elements of heroin, physical, mental and social. One scene that is symbolic of showing how difficult it can be for a person when he goes back to his parents house and being locked in his old room. One key element of the scene that shows the struggle is the fact he is locked in his own room. This represents that at the end of the day his struggle is personal, no matter who he depends upon, he is the only person who can get himself out of the mess he is in. The grip of heroin addiction has him in a personal, like his locked room.
Another way in which this scene represents the struggle is when the room gets longer. This is him hallucinating, showing withdrawal symptoms from the drug, but the increasing size of the room can almost be seen as a personification of the typical saying "It always gets worse before it gets better". His problems such as; addiction and hallucinations get increasing worse than other time in the film, hence the room increasing in size. Boyle uses Mark's childhood as a symbol as his addiction catching up on him.
The death of the baby is a turning point of the film into a much darker place. Before the death of the baby, the group were taking heroin, they were having having happy trips and didn't have a second thought about any responsibilities. Despite not knowing how the baby died, the audience can only be presume it was due to neglect. Despite this being a turning point in the film, we can see the effects of baby's death during the scene in Mark's childhood room. The baby can be seen to be crawling on the ceiling, this part of the scene almost feels like a haunting due to the creepiness of the baby crawling on the ceiling. This is effective in taking the audience to a darker place with Mark. Boyle uses the baby to present the severity of the problems surrounding drug addictions that are not just personal
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