![]() We meet a few other old faces, including a brief glimpse of James Cosmo, but we are squarely focused on the four leads, with the few female characters, including newcomer Anjela Nedyalkova, given little scope. Renton is trying to amend for the sins of the past, pairing up with Sick Boy on a deranged scheme to set up a brothel after failing to make it in Amsterdam. They are older, not much wiser, and the film, like the characters, fumes with the regret of middle age. Renton and his old pals are now slapped with extra fat around the waist, thinner hair lines and wrinkles around the eyes. They are sadder and greyer, but no less addictive. Renton is 20 years clean and addicted to jogging, Spud (Ewen Bremner) isn’t, Sick Boy is still pulling fast ones, and Begbie, still a livewire, has broken out of prison. ![]() You’re a tourist in your own youth.” Boyle knows full well we'll be comparing it to the original, so he tosses in the callbacks, and brazenly embraces it. The answer is best summed up in a scene at a memorial for Tommy, the fifth member of the gang who was last seen in the original face down in his kitten-soiled flat. Jonny Lee Miller’s Sick Boy turns to Renton (Ewan McGregor), who's returned home after two decades, and declares, “Nostalgia, that’s why you’re here.
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