The Acid House (1998)
Directed by Paul McGuigan
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
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Yet like other cracks at jerry-rigging Welsh’s foul-mouthed, thickly accented, stream-of- consciousness prose for the screen (1998’s The Acid House, 2011’s Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy), Filth feels like a mawkish, embarrassing imitation; a blundering attempt to rebottle lightning.
However, Danny Boyle’s modern classic doth bestride the world of the Irvine Welsh adaptation like a colossus, its shadow seemingly impossible to escape from, so there is a glass-half-full way of looking at it: “Filth” is undoubtedly better than also-rans “The Acid House” and “Ecstasy.”
Quizá, la versión cinematográfica pudo haber sido más sucia y pútrida, pero el realizador británico, Jon S. Baird (Cass, 2008), es capaz de recuperar el caos emocional, la atmósfera de libertinaje y el atrevido tono de humor negro presentes en la fuente original para que el filme, afortunadamente, se erija en un tono más cercano a la odisea de los adictos a la heroína de Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996) que a las otras traducciones fílmicas menos acertadas como The Acid House (Paul McGuigan, 1998) y Ecstasy (Rob Heydon, 2011).