Intro?
Genre is a distinguishable aspect of a text that a film is built around, it can be seen as the foundations of a text as there are key conventions certain genres have that are traditionally followed if a film is created within that genre. Whilst genre arguably is a paramount part of defining film...
(Save For Later) In 1996 can a film like Trainspotting really be justified under one genre?
Danny Boyle's 'Trainspotting' is a social realist film which immediately makes us aware of the debt it owes to the masters of the genre from the previous decades, 'Ken Loach and Mike Leigh assessed the impact of the consumer society on family life', Trainspotting's famous opening speech gives us Rentons take on the consumerist society...
'Trainspotting' creates more than just a male protagonist, Danny Boyle has also opted to incorporate a background character in Alison. Alison, like the majority of Boyles characters has a heroin condition and to keep with common stereotypes a baby. It can be understood that Alison's character is only there to emphasise the destruction heroin has and how the drug has effected the society they live in, this is stressed through the death of Alison's baby and the immediate response of 'I need a hit' suggesting Heroin is the way of dealing with the burdens of life 'Women tend to be a background presence or to feature as victims in many contemporary urban dramas, their aspirations and hopes for a better life doomed to unfulfilled resolution'. Whilst this role complies with the common conventions of Social Realism, Danny Boyle also presents us with another female character, Rentons girlfriend Diane who disassociates herself from common Social Realist theories. Diane
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