I've never been to Ontario, but I remember seeing the original, I was an infrequent visitor to the cinema, mainly due to the fact that at that age (18) I was more into smoking dope and going to raves. At the point that trainspotting was released I was hanging out with a small group of people who were into heroin. I dabbled, but only because I liked hanging out with the group. Anyway, we discovered that the local multiplex was screening it at 11.00 on a Saturday night, there was no national release at this point, just a massive buzz of excitement about it. We were excited because it felt like, WOW, there's a really cool film about heroin (which we thought was really cool, and by extension, we were really cool for taking it) and we were going OUT, as opposed to just sitting in whoever's living room for the whole weekend. To top the experience off, two of our party were late meeting us in the foyer. When they arrived, one of them had wet hair and a grazed face. Why? Because he just had to have a bit more gear before going in (we were all nicely high, obvs), had a bit too much, and had a little OD in the car park. Our mate had to drag him out of the car to get him in the recovery position, after emptying a bottle of water over his head, and giving him a couple of slaps. Hence the wet hair and grazes. Thankfully it was just a little overdose, and in we went. All told, there were probably only 15 people in the whole theatre, and they also looked like they too were drug users who'd dragged themselves out to watch this great film about their favourite past time. And it was a great film. It still is, but there's something else when you see a film like that, when it's first released, that's just fantastic I think, and a little rare, too.
FYI, everyone in that group (aside from me, because I really was only dabbling) ended up with quite bad habits. And it wasn't big or clever, it definitely wasn't funny or cool. And looking back, obviously we weren't at all cool, despite what we thought.
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