The story in the novel actually takes place from the early to late 80s (nowadays Edinburgh has improved as a city and isn't as rough as it is in the book) so the film has a certain gloomy period feel (the 80s were a bad time for the North of England and Scotland, since Thatcher eliminated a lot of British heavy industry which caused mass unemployment), most of the characters live in those hideous blocks of flats, songs from the 80s highlight the passages of time and you might also notice that most of the cars in the background are from the 80s as well, there aren't too many new cars in this film.
That picture where Diane (Kelly McDonald) is taking her dress off (1st on the bottom row), I was once going to add a still from that scene where she and Renton (Ewan McGregor) have sex, as a joke when one of the sixcyl nudity debates was happening (I was going to say something like "If he can add nude women then can I add this?"). But since I don't share his compulsion (some might say perversion ) to put up girlie pictures all over the place, I didn't end up doing it.
None of the girls in this film are especially attractive anyway (in one scene Begbie ends up with a transexual!).
?? perversion??? mind what you're saying !
I don't know where is perversion to pickup girlie pictures in films/movies ... It's just one way of digression in some films comments , as the trains, planes, boats or some famaous landscapes...
and let me tell you that I feel very well with my sexuality with not any kind of perversions
I'm only teasing The truth is in Britain people who make their interest in sex a little too obvious are mockingly referred to as perverts or "pervs" (it doesn't always mean they have deviant sexual perversions), but perhaps it's not like this as much in other European countries?