Trainspotting - Novel to Film

TOMMY LAURENCE

In the Trainspotting novel , Tommy Laurence was the character I liked the most . The main reason why I liked his character was because of his nature . The way how things turned out for him caught my attentio - the way he went up and down . Life is beautiful but it is very much dependent on how you live it . In his earlier , he didn 't use heroin and he seems content with just drinking . He likes to play football and listen to leggy pop . When his girlfriend dumped him , that was when

he started using heroin to cope with the depression . His life changed just because of his girlfriend dumping him for losing one of the tapes . Heroin became a habit for him as he found that it relieved his depression and it made him feel better . It was also partly because of his friend Renton that he got hooked since Renton provided him with the heroin . Renton was also the person who stole the tape which was the main reason why his gielfriend dumped him . These incident changed Tommy 's personal behavior He didn 't care what happened to him anymore . In the end , he was diagnosed with HIV . So , the main point about his character is that his life changed because of many unfortunate circumstances and he just ended giving up

Novel and Film

I watched the film before I had the chance to read the book . Actually , I wastched the film long before it came out...