{"id":58327,"date":"2017-05-05T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=58327"},"modified":"2017-05-01T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:21:37","slug":"20-years-in-the-making-t2-trainspotting-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/05\/05\/20-years-in-the-making-t2-trainspotting-review\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years in the Making: T2 Trainspotting Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Danny Boyle<br \/>\n<strong>Writers:<\/strong> John Hodge, Irvine Welsh (novels)<br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by:<\/strong> Abe Lopez<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58331\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58331\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/t2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/t2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/t2.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jaap Buitendijk &#8211; \u00a9 2016 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It has been over twenty years since the cult classic\u00a0<em>Trainspotting\u00a0<\/em>came out in 1996, now all the main characters return in this much anticipated sequel. After many trials and errors on the screenplay for this movie, John Hodge and Danny Boyle eventually had\u00a0a script that made the actors from the original to come back for\u00a0<em>T2 Trainspotting<\/em>. If you have seen the first movie (and enjoyed it), you will most likely enjoy this new installment.<\/p>\n<p>This sequel does not act so much as a stand alone film, I would highly suggest watching\u00a0<em>Trainspotting<\/em> (1996) before you see this one. Being \u00a0a fan of the original, I thought that\u00a0<em>T2\u00a0<\/em>lived up to the hype. I went with one other person, who had not seen the original, and she was genuinely confused throughout the whole movie and I could see how that would be the case. Mark Renton (played by Ewan McGregor) returns after 20 years abroad from Scotland, and reunites with his friends. The way\u00a0Renton&#8217;s old friends treat him have to do with the fact of what he did 20 years ago to deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t spoil the first movie for the sake of defending the plot of\u00a0<em>T2<\/em>, so coming into this complex story without the prior knowledge of what happened 20 years ago in the world of\u00a0<em>Trainspotting\u00a0<\/em>will likely lead you to think &#8220;what was the point of that?&#8221; or &#8220;why would someone do such a thing?&#8221;. This movie is rated R for its usage of language, violence, drug use, graphic nudity, and strong sexual content. That being said, this movie is also filled with love, hate, friendship, regret, longing, joy, vengeance, sorrow, loss, and basically every other human emotion.\u00a0<em>T2 Trainspotting <\/em>is currently playing\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyhall.net\">Liberty Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Danny Boyle Writers: John Hodge, Irvine Welsh (novels) Reviewed by: Abe Lopez It has been over twenty years since the cult classic\u00a0Trainspotting\u00a0came out in 1996, now all the main characters return in this much anticipated sequel. After many trials and errors on the screenplay for this movie, John Hodge and Danny Boyle eventually had\u00a0a script that made the actors from the original to come back for\u00a0T2 Trainspotting. If you have seen the first movie (and enjoyed it), you will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19001,"featured_media":58506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226,15],"tags":[6476,3799,7462,7461],"class_list":["post-58327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","category-featured-on-kjhk","tag-film-review","tag-liberty-hall","tag-t2","tag-trainspotting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/t2-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}