Porno picks up where Trainspotting left off, reuniting the same
motley crew of drug addicts, chancers, reprobates and hustlers ten
years on. Spud is trying to kick the habit. Begbie is about to come
out of prison, where he has, to his great consternation, been
receiving regular packages of gay porn from an anonymous
'benefactor'. Meanwhile Sick Boy (the benefactor in question)
returns from London to take over his aunt's pub in a
none-too-salubrious part of Leith, and in one final, mad fling of
the dice, decides to try his hand at directing porno movies. He
enlists the services of the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a lithe
young film student whose ambition (and libido) matches his own, and
who, between delivering hand-jobs in a local massage parlour,
dreams of making a non-exploitative sex film. On a trip to
Amsterdam (to check out the competition) they run into Sick Boy's
old friend/new enemy, Renton, who, you may recall, ran off at the
end of Trainspotting with the gang's ill-gotten gains. While all is
not exactly forgiven, Sick Boy counts Renton in on the action and
together they await the inevitable showdown with Begbie. That Welsh
would eventually return to the psychotic but loveable characters of
Trainspotting seems, on reflection, all too predictable. He hasn't
managed anything as satisfying, as complete, since. Once again, the
multiple narrators are skilfully (re)introduced, with Sick Boy and
Nikki providing much-needed relief from the phonetically rendered,
expletive-laden dialect of Spud and Begbie. Cocaine, rather than
heroin, is the drug of choice here, but then drugs come a poor
second to sex in this sequel. The heady cocktail of bad language,
pornography and relentless drug abuse won't win any new converts,
but for those who enjoyed Trainspotting, it's like meeting up with
an old friend. You laugh and remember the good times, decide after
a while that they've grown boring and complacent, but stay until
closing time anyway. (Kirkus UK)
Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew that includes the city's favourite ex-aerated-water-salesman, 'Juice' Terry Lawson.
In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.
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