Trainspotting: Whose choice was it anyway?

Thirty years on, we watch *Trainspotting* , and Alice and Saj ask what gets lost when a film about addiction, and poverty becomes shorthand for "cool nihilism?" Renton's "choose life" monologue plays as rebellion, but whose choices were ever really on the table? Come along and listen to this 2026 rewatch of class, masculinity, and the difference between refusing a system and having no access to it in the first place.