Daily Dialogue — June 28, 2016

Tommy: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?
Mark “Rent-boy” Renton: It’s shite being Scottish. We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth. The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonized by. We’re ruled by effete arseholes. It’s a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference.

— Trainspotting (1996), screenplay by John Hodge, novel by Irvine Walsh

The Daily Dialogue for the week: Rant. Today’s suggestion by Michael Waters.

Trivia: The film was shot in seven and a half weeks.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Michael: “A rant can be a string of f-bombs or a moment of clarity in the mind of the deranged. Mark’s inner and outer journey is all about connecting up the moments of clarity hidden under the haze of addiction. It’s not just a rant, it’s his inner need for transformation shining through.”