How Do the Makers of "Trainspotting" Depict British Youth Sub-culture?

In 1980’s Scotland, socioeconomic conditions and morale suffered due to the implementation of Thatcher policies, placing the lower class in a deplorable state of hopelessness. The film Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle, depicts the plights of young heroin junkies during the Thatcher Era in Edinburgh. The film’s focus is not heroin addiction, but rather, uses the silver screen as a platform to portray the depressing impact Thatcherism had on Scottish socioeconomic conditions as conveyed through the protagonist, heroin-addicted Mark Renton. Trainspotting illustrates that the social struggles of the Scottish lower class during the Thatcher Era are significant contributing factors to cause Renton to become a heroin user in order to escape the depressing and monotonous existence to which he is subjected.

Chapter 3, “A Community of Addicted Bodies”, traces how physical and emotional dependence on heroin creates a social hierarchy within the

Message coded – individual thinks about how they are going to say what they are thinking and decides in what form the communication will be i.e

Chasing heroin is a documentary giving us insight information on the rapidly growing pandemic of addictions to drugs, notably heroin. The heroin epidemic is rising at an alarming

Harry expresses no desire to stop use and is always looking for the next opportunity to use. Therefore, he is always on the search for drugs, selling drugs, or using drugs. When he does not have opioids Harry is desperate to find more. Harry’s ongoing use creates barriers in his relationship with his mother as he is not able to be a part of her life. Harry is not interested in having a regular job and resorts to selling drugs to make a living. This form of employment creates interpersonal problems for Harry as the urge to use his product is high and the consequences surrounding this line of work is dangerous.

In Dublin, Ireland, the excessive use of heroin became the scapegoat for many arising problems such as public health issues, unemployment, violence, deaths, run down housing and other crimes, ultimately labeling heroin as the reason for all the countries issues.

The film Prescription Thugs, directed by Christopher Bell, goes deeply into detail about the effects of prescription drugs and addiction. The film goes through how addiction affects the abusers, and also their families. It also explains the regulations

In a small town, everyone is affected by the heroin epidemic. Close-knit families and communities are torn apart by the heroin. The drug affects individuals across every

Heroin addicts have the psychological dependence on heroin that leads them into the state of self-destruction and the possibility of leading to death by the extreme use of heroin. Never estimate the poppy flower for its power that withholds the fiends to their mentality enduring the euphoria enslavement of the mind that contained for many centuries. The heroin addiction nation is a self numbing injection and dry approach to have the mind under the state of the greatest feeling of great happiness leaving the pain behind under the spell of heroin. Heroin comes in many forms for addicts to enjoy in their own way. They come in powder and rock like form that is combined with other narcotics. The snorting form for heroin is not

A full spectrum of social class is depicted in the movie, Gosford Park. In the cleverly written screen play, the lives of British social aristocrats, their lowly servants, and some of Hollywood’s American elitists intertwine during a weekend shooting party in a country estate. The line between playful leisure and tasked work, not always clearly defined, are surprisingly reversed from what one might initially expect.

Trainspotting begins with Renton’s "Choose Life" monologue in which he argues that he can either have a conventional life or he can try to do something out of the norm. Coincidentally drug-culture is able to act as oppositional to conventions and normality and allows him to follow through with his monologues assertion. Whether he uses drugs to escape conventional life or escapes conventional life through drug use the reality that his addiction has on his life is complete and utterly encompassing.

The cinematography of this film features numerous close-ups of its adolescent protagonists as well as point-of-view shots acquired predominantly from their perspective, thus making the viewers position themselves firmly on the boys’ side of

If “seeing is believing”, then how youth is represented in popular films is all true, right? Partying hard, drugs, promiscuity and sour attitude – wrong! The problem is not the unacceptable and risky behaviour, because it only applies to a minority. The real issue is that the way teens are represented on movie screens is unrealistic and over-dramatized which benefits film makers, not the reputation of teens. Right now all we’re seeing are the fictional teens and the false realities that seem to be attached to our popular films.

They are filmed almost entirely on location, for the most part in poor neighbourhoods or the countryside. Its subject matter usually consists entirely of or involves life among the poor and the working classes. Realism is emphasized and performances are mainly constructed from scenes of people performing fairly mundane day to day activities and tasks, whilst remaining completely devoid of the self-consciousness that amateur acting usually incorporates. Neo-realist films also generally feature children in major roles, though these roles are often more observational than participatory parts.

In addition, understanding different models of communication enable members inside and outside an organisation to depict different messages being provided by the employee or customer and develop their communication skills. The Shannon and Weaver model of communication was developed to show the effects of communication between two people (Kikoski, 1993). In the Shannon and Weaver model, a message is encoded (via a symbolic form) from a source (the sender) through a medium called a channel, and decoded (retranslated) by the receiver. However, the message can be interrupted by a process called noise and can result in discrepancy and sometimes negative feedback from the receiver (Bowman and Targowski, 1987). In response to the Shannon and Weaver model of communication, through the identification of any noise within the communication process, as a result of the manager level of attunement in communication skills, the encoded