#irvine-welsh

#irvine-welsh

The extended footage of Welsh in conversation is certainly engaging, as he discusses his writing and the movies it created, and his own youth in Edinburgh. Some of the rest of the interviewees aren't quite so gripping, however, and the film is padded out with a fair bit of redundant anecdotage from people on the subject of getting hilariously wasted in Irvine's company or at least his approximate vicinity.

Trainspotting's success illustrates a rare literary event where a critically acclaimed, stylistically adventurous book becomes a cultural sensation, selling over a million copies.