The poster for the first Trainspotting film shows the five main characters off in their own unique poses. This is to immediately create a sense of identification amongst them however their actions are all facing towards a member of the audience, breaking the fourth wall and enabling us to understand that through their differences, there must be something that links them under one collective.
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There is a large headlining review at the top that is an attack on Hollywood films, Boyle's social realist piece is a statement on heroin addicts in Scotland. This gritty piece is unlike Hollywood films and by having a tagline saying 'your time is up!' aims to identify this film as a spectacle that challenges the high grossing films of Hollywood.
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The colour scheme is orange white and black, similar to colour schemes of prison uniforms, indicating some form of trap for the characters and some level of a sinister level of illegal acts, as a result from the heroin that the characters take in the film and Begbie is tied to the life of crime by his violent acts, possibly listed as number 1 due to his notoriety?
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