Trainspotting was about drug culture and hopelessness and despair and death... but at its heart were some endearing larger-than-life characters and a sense of honour and humanity among the wasted lives.
Twin Town in part tries to ape this feel with its cheap dope-smoking leads and winsome dreams about "leaving Swansea for Mexico" (christ...), but, like my other aforementioned hated film
Human Traffic, fails miserably by glossing over and "knowing about" the seediness it is trying so hard to look hip and at ease with - the result is patronising charver rubbish.
There is a dead on review (and interesting comparison with
Trainspotting) here:-
http://www.salon.com/may97/twin970530.html