Mise-en-Scene & Aesthetics

• Trainspotting's aesthetics act as evidence for hyper-realism rather than social realism, full of shabby brown tones and drab minimalism of drug dens.
• The colour coordinated cubes of housing hide their contents and reflects conformist normality that Renton is escaping from and condemns in his "Choose Life" monologue.
• The most significant aesthetic point in Sightseers is the realism of locations. Otherwise dark humour could not be derived from the juxtaposition of murder with real scenes of natural beauty.
• Tina is infantilised through her childish bedroom, for example teddy bears seen on her bed. This fuels Tina's motivation to escape her childhood home, since she states she was quite unhappy as a child. Furthermore, it also shows how both her and Chris are outsiders, which can be compared with how Renton is an outsider.
• Tina being dwarfed by the giant pencil whilst writing Chris a letter and playing in playground further infantilises her, showing how she is out of touch with the "adult" world.