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The Acid House was penned by Trainspotting writer Irvin Welsh and follows a similarly dank and downbeat style of storytelling and setting. This time the film is split up into three shorts rather than one continuous narrative alá Trainspotting which some others might tell you felt like two stories given the path involving the drug deal the film decides to go down right nearer the end. Visually, The Acid House is very similar to Trainspotting but it also blurs the boundary between realism and surrealism in the same fashion Trainspotting did. If there's one thing I enjoyed Trainspotting for, it was the use of the everyday; of the mundane in locales and dialogue as people spouted Sean Connery trivia and made reference to famous goals in World Cups gone by. Welsh: I don’t know where that comes from. I think you can see the genesis of every story in events and such. I go around thinking what if such and such and where would that person go and I just search around my own head.

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E un autor pe gustul meu, numai bun pentru a-ți rupe obișnuitul, frumosul și la care vei Ah!-ooo-iii mai mereu.Berthold Schoene, ed.: The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

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A corrupt police officer and his tapeworm served as the narrators for his third novel, Filth (1998). The main character of Filth was a vicious sociopathic policeman. The novel was adapted to a film with the same name in 2013. Theatre". Irvine Welsh. The Random House Group Limited. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012 . Retrieved 29 July 2012. The first chapter of the story, "The Granton Star Cause", premiered before completion of the other two parts. [4] It was also shown on Channel 4 on August 3, 1997. [5] The short film offended elements of the UK tabloid press with a depiction of a cynical, jaded, foul-mouthed God. [5] Filming of "A Soft Touch" and "The Acid House" concluded in late 1997. [4] The completed film premiered at the Marché du Film (Cannes Film Market) in May of 1998, [1] and was released in the UK on January 1, 1999. [6] BG When I attempted to stop taking drugs and drinking, what helped more than anything was making a commitment to getting up in the morning, getting dressed and going somewhere, swimming, an NA [narcotics anonymous] meeting. Putting structure into a chaotic life, building defences. Because if I drank, I took drugs. If I took drugs, I drank. I didn’t like the way I was behaving. I hated myself. I didn’t like the impact it was having on my wife and kids. I couldn’t take it any more. I was becoming really deranged and paranoid. I was making myself psychotic basically. It was time to make a change, for many reasons, but mainly my family. It's all very funny, highly surreal stuff. And despite the metamorphosis, body-swapping, magic, and a truly repugnant production design I can't help but find it an accurate depiction of Scottish life. Spend five minutes in a deprived area of this country (and believe me there is a lot of deprivation) and you'll encounter half of the cast of this film.Murphy, Claire (13 January 2009). "Author can't find buyer for his Dublin home". Evening Herald. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022 . Retrieved 17 February 2012. This scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories introduces to these shores a young writer already being called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" ( Guardian) and "a mad postmodern Roald Dahl" ( Weekend Scotsman). Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy, manipulative, and vicious characters. He specializes particularly in cosmic reversals--God turns a hapless footballer into a fly; an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousnesses with sardonically unexpected results--always displaying a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and detail. Irvine Welsh is one hilariously dangerous writer and he is bound to create a sensation. Welsh: I think it was probably very helpful. To be honest, when I did this, because the stories were already there and they are so much inside the main character’s head, it was very easy to just start off with the dialogue and inject parts from there. It was the easiest thing to do and I loved it. BG I remember reading you at the time of the vote in 2014, and thinking, that’s interesting. This idea that, if Scotland gets independence and becomes a more social democratic, left, liberal country, maybe people in England will finally wake up. I totally understand that point of view, but I find it very hard. I’m only nationalist when it comes to football. My dad’s influence was to be internationalist. IW Race/ethnicity was another one. Those attitudes went through to other stuff, like ska, 2 Tone, and acid house. Same vibe then. It all came out of the same punk idea.

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