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Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins

Hand Knit posted:

T2 has so much to do with memory, nostalgia, and failed dreams that watching Trainspotting first is probably pretty important.

It also has so many references in dialogue, audio cues, and visual cues that you won't appreciate or miss entirely if you haven't seen the first.

I really enjoyed it. It's a nostalgia sequel about nostalgia sequels. Everyone putting out a sequel 10-20 years later nowadays is trying to recapture that old magic, this is a film that lampoons that idea and deals with the reality that the good ol' days are gone and you can't go back. Not being as good as the original is kind of the whole point of the movie - the characters spend a good portion of the film talking about how awesome the events of the first film were. Trainspotting was a 90s zeitgeist film, and you can't make another one of those because the spirit of the times has vastly changed. Meanwhile the people who have moved on the most and been successful as a result, like Diane, are the least featured.

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