glorifying drug use?

Who is saying that it did?

Trainspotting is one of my favourite films of all time, the first time i saw it was like..this film is gonna change me forever. And it did. I wanted to be part of that f*kd up world, i know, crazy but true. My morbid curiosity of wanting to experiment with hard drugs was 100 percent hightened by seeing it for the first time, at that stage i hadnt even smoked a joint. 4 years later i was smoking crack and heroin, a year later injecting both.
Did Trainspotting glorify drug use? No definitely not. Did it glamorise drug use? For the regular person no it didn't, for me, in my messed up world, yeah it did glamorise drug use. But as i said, for most people i am pretty sure trainspotting turned them off drugs for life. I only wish i was one of those people because the exciting days didnt last for long and the bad times out weigh the good times without question. Did Trainspotting make me use and subsequently become an addict? No of course it didnt, i made the choices for myself. And as i started by saying, even though heroin has totally destroyed my life, Trainspotting is one of my favourite films of all time if not THE favourite.

Seriously. I don't see how it glorified drug use. Of course drug addicts like to use and the movie shows that reality. It's not all doom and gloom all the time. A lot of fked up stuff happened because of their drug use. Aids, anyone? I think the movie does a great job at showing both sides of drug use. The good and the bad. Yes, Renton romanticized heroin but that's because he's addicted to it and loves it. That's like a lot of heroin addicts.

Anyone who only sees one side of it is just ignorant and can't understand that there are two sides to it. It's not just black and white and this movie does an excellent job at depicting that.

I was an herion addict 4 bout 5 yrs longer i enjoyed it expected the withdrawn symptoms. I stole, scrapped, theft, fraud. I cAn relate 2 this movie. Addicts love drugs the emphoria

Trust me this world is far from glorious.
They make heroin sound so much better than it is. I hate the stuff...saying that it's less than an hour now 'til my next hit and I really can't wait.
It's a horrible world, I doubt they actually tried heroin as it's nowhere near as good as they say, in London at least.

Never underestimate the teenage brain. I was 16 when this movie came out and at the time it made my friends & me want to go out and score some heroin (we'd planned on smoking it, not injecting it). Luckily we failed. But I was obsessed with this movie--and its soundtrack--the summer it came out and inexplicably thought it glamorized heroin use. Perhaps it had something to do with the whole 'heroin chic' grunge thing that was going on in the '90s where even Calvin Klein had his models looking like strung out addicts. Or perhaps we were just bored, privileged kids who wanted to inject (no pun intended) some excitement into our lives. I'm now 40 years old and when I watch Trainspotting I see nothing glamorous about it at all. I'm both embarrassed and horrified that I ever interpreted this movie as being something aspirational. Their lives are all completely fucked.

I agree with Danny Boyle who has said in the past that people who think Trainspotting glorifies drug use only think that because they remember some of the comic moments and the brilliant soundtrack. Just because it didn't beat you over the head with preachy dialogue like Hollywood does doesn't mean it was glorifying drug use.

The main character wades through a sh!tty toilet, has an overdose, suffers going cold turkey, a baby dies in a drug den from neglect, another character becomes addicted to heroin and gets aids and becomes an outcast in a grotty flat.

It's hardly glamorous.

I wouldn't say it glorifies drug use specifically, but it can be argued that it makes heroin junkies look less like desperate, miserable & suffering & but more so like hip, good looking, witty & rebellious 20 somethings, going through a bit of misadventure. Particularly Renton & Simon come across this way.