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In an interesting review, critic Roger Ebert said "The movie has been attacked as pro-drug and defended as anti-drug, but actually it is simply pragmatic. It knows that addiction leads to an unmanageable, exhausting, intensely uncomfortable daily routine, and it knows that only two things make it bearable: a supply of the drug of choice, and the understanding of fellow addicts."<ref>''Trainspotting'', BY ROGER EBERT, July 26, 1996 [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960726/REVIEWS/607260303/1023]</ref>

In an interesting review, critic Roger Ebert said "The movie has been attacked as pro-drug and defended as anti-drug, but actually it is simply pragmatic. It knows that addiction leads to an unmanageable, exhausting, intensely uncomfortable daily routine, and it knows that only two things make it bearable: a supply of the drug of choice, and the understanding of fellow addicts."<ref>''Trainspotting'', BY ROGER EBERT, July 26, 1996 [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960726/REVIEWS/607260303/1023]</ref>

The film has nothing directly to do with the British hobby of train spotting, in which railfans keep records of the rolling stock they've seen,<ref>eHow.com, ''How to Go Trainspotting'', retrieved 10/24/08[http://www.ehow.com/how_2247294_go-trainspotting.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art]</ref> beyond the authors' opinion that shooting heroin is as little use as he considers the railfan hobby to be.

Despite the name, ''Trainspotting'' does not have anything directly to do with the hobby of train spotting, in which railfans keep track of the rolling stock they've seen.<ref>eHow.com, ''How to Go Trainspotting'', retrieved 10/24/08[http://www.ehow.com/how_2247294_go-trainspotting.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art]</ref> The name refers to a scene in the original novel, which was not included in the movie.

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