Spotting the train in 10 1/2 chapters...

two reviews coming up...
one is the movie 'Trainspotting' and the second one is the book 'The History of The World in 10 1/2 Chapters'...
weird titles yeah I know...

first...the movie 'Trainspotting'...
it's about this guy who is...well...a total screw up...
he's a drug addict and a thief...although he came from a normal family...
the story started by him saying that he don't want to become like us...he do not want to choose life...
he tried to stop using drugs...going cold turkey and all...but in the end he failed...and went back to drugs...
he also fell in love...well maybe not in love but somewhere there... to a girl called diane...had sex with her before realising that she is only a school girl...
his friends were no better...spud is a complete loser, the other a sadist, sex boy is well you get it from the name...tomy was the only one that was quite 'sane'...although in the end he fell to drugs and died...
until one point , he almost OD and his parents in the end kept him cold turkey...
he went to the city and worked there and practically started a new life...that is until his friends came to his place...
four of them got hold of heroin and tried to sell them and they succeeded...
but in the end, this guy took the money and ran away leaving some for spud 'cos he didn't really care about the other two...
so in the end...he chose life...

second...the book...
the book started with Noah...yes, the guy with the big ark and all the animal in the world...
the first chapter told the story of Noah from the perspective of a woodworm...it's damn funny...
it was the other side of the story...not the one that the Bible told us...
basically...the book hinges on few things...
discrimination...on how the animals in Noah's ark were separated to two categories...the clean and unclean...
and how self-indulgent sometimes makes other people suffer...like when the people on board wanted to eat, they kill the animals...
almost all the rest of the book were based on these issues...
one phrase embodies the second chapter..."In every case, sooner or later self-interest had triumphed over altruism"...
The third chapter questions the intention of God and ask, "who are we to perceive God's intentions as we perceive them to be ?"...
I don't really get the underlying meaning of chapter 4, but I think it's about going away and leaving everything behind, your fears, nightmares...everything...
chapter 5, in my opinion, said the same thing as chapter 2...while chapter 6 tells the story of a lady that is so devoted in finding Noah's ark, she died searching on the mount Ararat...
chapter 7 again saying that self-interest sometimes hinder us from doing something that is morally right...but then, what is moral ?
chapter 8 is puzzling to me...one issue is about miscommunication and distrust while the other is about accepting someting new and opening new perspectives...hmmm...
chapter 9 is simply about love...here's an excerpt from chapter 9...

"Men will say 'I love you' to get women into bed with them; women will say 'I love you' to get men into marriage with them; both will say 'I love you' to keep fear at bay, to convince themselves of the deed by the word, to assure themselves that the promised condition has arrived, to deceive themselves that it hasn't yet gone away."

chapter 10 is about a man who received a word from God, at least that's what he believed, on his journey to the moon and return a changed man.
he again, like in chapter 6, tried to find Noah's ark and he found the remnants of the lady in chapter 6 but he didn't stop...he went on...
it's a wonderful book...if you have time go and read it...

that's all for today's review...