#THEN IN T2 THEY GO THERE IN MEMORIAM TO TOMMY BUT IT'S A DISASTER AND THEY RELIVE THEIR PAST GUILT

[mangle-my-mind]

It's the way T2: Trainspotting tackles nostalgia. Like that's exactly it. The first movie was all nihilism, anti-"choose life", apathetic, depressing, but still glorious and colorful and fun because they were all young. The sequel completely acknowledges that and runs with it. The characters grow up and realize how much the world has changed. They hate where they ended up, and they blame each other or they blame the world but they can't handle that that might just be what life is. They're stuck with the aftereffects of a 20-year-old betrayal, but they're also desperately clinging to the beauty of a 20-years-gone adolescence and friendship. They're "tourists in their own youth", watching flashbacks before their eyes, reliving the same moments with the same outcome because they haven't yet accepted how much they've grown, how much of their life has already gone by.