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What's choose lifeWhat Choose lifeSimon says it sometimesHe says choose life VeronikaChoose lifeChoose life was a well meaning slogan from a 19803 antidrug campaignAnd we used to add things to itSo I
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'Choose life'. 'Choose life' was a well meaning slogan from a 1980's anti-drug campaign...

Veronika:
What's 'Choose life'?Renton:What?Veronika:'Choose life'. Simon says it sometimes. He says "Choose life, Veronika!"Renton:'Choose life'. 'Choose life' was a well meaning slogan from a 1980's anti-drug campaign and we used to add things to it, so I might say for example, choose... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian Firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging, from your first wank 'til your last breath; human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who've had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work. And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and maybe tell yourself that it's better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment And choose losing the ones you love, then as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone and there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronika. Choose life

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What's choose life
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What Choose life
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Simon says it sometimes
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He says choose life Veronika
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Choose life
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Choose life was a well meaning slogan from a 19803 antidrug campaign
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And we used to add things to it
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So I might say for example choose
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Designer lingerie
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in the vain hope of kicking some life
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back into a dead relationship
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Choose handbags
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Choose high heeled shoes
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Cashmere and silk to make yourself feel what passes for happy
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Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window
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and stick it in the pocket of yourjacket fresh from a south Asian firetrap
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Choose Facebook Twitter Snapchat Instagram
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and a thousand other ways to spew your bile across people you've never met
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Choose updating your profile
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Tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone somewhere cares
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Choose looking up old flames
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desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do
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Choose live blogging from your first wank to your last breath
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Human interaction reduced to nothing more than data
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Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who'd had surgery
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Choose screaming about abortion
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Choose rape jokes slut shaming revenge porn
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and an endless tide of depressing misogyny
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Choose 9 11 never happened and if it did it was the Jews
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Choose a zero hour contract and a two hourjourney to work
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and choose the same for your kids only worse
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And maybe tell yourself it's better that they never happened
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And then sit back and smother the pain
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with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen
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Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently
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Choose never learning from your own mistakes
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Choose watching history repeat itself
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Choose the slow reconciliation
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towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for
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Settle for less and keep a brave face on it
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Choose disappointment
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And choose losing the ones you loved
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And as they fall from view a piece of you dies with them
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Until you can see that one day in the future piece by piece they will all be gone
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And there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead
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Choose your future Veronika
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Choose life
Available in 13 languages
Duration
144 seconds
Views
645
Timestamp in Movie
01:00:39
Uploaded
Mar 11, 2026
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Production
Creative Scotland,DNA Films,Decibel Films,Film4 Productions,Cloud Eight Films,TriStar Pictures,LStar Capital

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Movie Summary

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.

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