「Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?」
電影中對無所事事的廢青文化描寫,毒品的刻劃,對我們老一代廢青有著不可磨滅的印記,特別是那場在High完海洛英後,播上 Lou Reed 的Perfect Day,影像表現手法,重新把Perfect Day給了新生命。一代宗師Iggy Pop的成名作Lust for Life,同時也是開場歌曲。
Danny Boyle 成了大導演,演主角Renton的Ewan McGregor 成了荷里活巨星,Sick Boy - Johnny Lee Miller 在美劇《福爾摩斯與華生》Elementary)演福爾摩斯,Diane - Kelly Macdonald 也嫁了給Travis 的Bass結他手 Dougie Payn。
Danny Boyle的特色是常與劇作家John Hodge、制片Andrew Macdonald以及Ewan McGregor共同合作。Ewan推薦另類小說The Beach的劇本給Boyle的,但他後來發現片商希望找一位更賣座的明星來演出,並且在未知會Ewan的情況下請來了Leonardo Di Caprio,而片商本來是承諾讓Ewan擔任主角的。英國媒體與小報挑撥,使得他與導演自此未再合作過。
從前的金句,在T2也變了,變成了:「Choose life. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently. And choose watching history repeat itself. Choose your future. Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn. Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work. And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s kitchen. And then… take a deep breath. You’re an addict, so be addicted. Just be addicted to something else. Choose the ones you love. Choose your future. Choose life.」