This movie was very sad with a bit of hope in it. All the characters at one point i must say made me laugh. the part of the movie that was puzzling to me was when the girls baby died, it seemed as though there were no consequences to her actions at all. they never really spoke of it. At certain parts of the movie i loved Begbie for his straight out honesty and crazy lifestyle, but when he blew the smoke in Rents face I wanted him dead. I was so happy that he took the money and then left some to Spud. I like the way the movie ended, just wished that Tommy didn’t have to die.
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I think the baby’s death was actually pretty important. It was the turning point where you see the more grotesque results of drug abuse. As in, till that point it was all cute and fluffy, relatively speaking, they shoot dogs, kiss each other randomly, even the horrid toilet scene had a lot of humor. Drugs were pleasurable, almost like a detrimental hobby. Mark even says something like ‘we wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t so fun’. But after the baby died, the drugs became a way to block out the pain of their surroundings. Notice that right after the baby dies, they all start taking the drug simply to stop thinking about how horrid the child’s death actually is, and from then on the film pretty much goes downhill until Mark moves to London.