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Article: Film: Double Bill - Shekhar Kapur, Director of `Elizabeth', on his ideal cinematic pairing 2001: A Space Odyssey Dir. Stanley Kubrick (1968) Trainspotting Dir. Danny Boyle (1996)
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 8, 1998
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THESE FILMS are so far apart from each other when you initially
look at them, yet each are talking about very mythical and mystical
things.
Although Trainspotting is so chaotic and contradictory to
everything, I believe if chaos is pushed, it achieves the same thing
as order. When contradiction and chaos are taken to an extreme, we
come to 2001: A Space Odyssey and its extreme of order. It's like a
circle where you can go through order, prayer and faith or come
through chaos, disorder and angst - both meet at the same point. The
common idea is a search for the meaning of life.
Through the angst of drug-taking in Trainspotting, the characters
come to a different way of understanding life. ...
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