Trainspotting: Mark Renton
Trainspotting: Mark Renton character analysis
In Trainspotting Danny Boyle not only creates the character Mark Renton, but he also develops him in a way that makes the audience understand him, but also sympathies with him. From the beginning of the film right through to the end Danny Boyle focuses more of the potential of Mark Renton rather than who he definitively. At the beginning Renton seem to be a quite care free character that is clearly a drug addict. One thing that is quite unexpected is that he is aware of his addiction.

This can be directly compared to the final scene after steals the money from his friends. Even though the stuff that he is saying his similar the way he is even saying it is different, essentially meaning that by the end, the definition of 'choose life' has changed. He says it in a more uplifting tone, which suggest that he not only redefined the meaning of 'choose life' but also redefined his attitude towards it.

Another one of the noticeable differences about the two monologues is that in the first one Renton mentions choosing friends, whereas in the second one he mentions choosing a family. From this we can infers that through his journey he may have come to the conclusion that friends may in fact be the thing that was holding him down the whole time and his family were the only that actually truly done what's best for him.
In conclusion, via the means of the opening and the closing monologue we are able to see the change both definition of 'choose life' and Renton's ability to carry it out.
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