I appreciate your detailed answer.
Of course the cinema owner's were not forced to cancel all their other films,and I don't blame them for wanting to host the premier.
But as a regular customer of that cinema chain I am entitled to question the way they organised it.
I had not seen any notices either in the cinema itself or on their website about the changes to their usual service.
You are correct that just because I don't like something it does not mean it is not worth seeing.
But the films and Welsh's books are taken as a realistic view of people from Leith and the Northern part of Edinburgh.
This is where I come from and I have always found Welsh's work to be something like hearsay evidence.
I always say it is as if he sat on a number 32 bus and wrote down what people were saying and worked his notes up into book.
But people from New York won't always see as realistic the books and films set there,and the books and films are not just made for my consumption.
The cult of Trainspotting is interesting,people read the book and go and see the film but they avoid the sort of people shown in the film if they meet them in real life?
You point about hipsters is interesting.
In these parts at least people I describe as hipsters dress and behave in certain obvious ways.
They are always discovering interesting shops and bars and areas of the city.
They love Leith because it is full of new bars and art centres.
But you are right,these people are not hipsters,they are want to be hipsters,if they were really hip they would not all dress the same or hold the same predictable opinions.
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