這就是我們的青年和中年

20年過去了，這群人又回到了愛丁堡，與過去的故事，自己的青春，相愛相殺的朋友們和解。世界變了，已經不是choose big television & washing machine 的年代，而是choose Facebook, Twitter & Snapchat的時代，大量東歐移民湧入愛丁堡，海洛因也早已不是流行的毒品。他們還是一無所有，而歲月已經爬上了他們的臉龐。

20年前的猜火車開頭，在愛丁堡玩命奔跑的雷登，choose life：

「Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a big fucking television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disk players and electrical tin openers...choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on the couch, watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.」　

20年前的猜火車結尾，在倫敦的橋上一邊大笑一邊行走的雷登，choose life：

「This is the last of this sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the day you die. 」

20年後的猜火車2，毛頭小子變成大叔後回家，浪漫主義變為現實主義。蘇格蘭口音沒有變，蹲在高地上罵政府的那股勁兒已經沒了，以及年輕時犯過的錯，你到底懺悔了沒有。你改變不了世界，你甚至沒法如願改變你自己。年輕時作死，結果是不能生育和心臟支架；是世界改變你，世界的洪流把青春期捲進去，中年危機吐出來。當年不管多混的小流氓，大概終於可以葉落歸根回到家鄉，再一次choose life。但其實，你的生活早已選擇好了，在這樣的選擇下，才有了此時此刻的回歸，還能給年輕人介紹一點作為長者的人生經驗。

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.

年輕人表示，大哥你到底在BB啥？

20年後的這一大段，就是雷登最終選擇的生活，或者希望自己選擇的生活，這也是我們正在選擇的生活。我們都一樣。

致敬腐朽的青春。致敬告別青春踏上社會洪流的自己。致敬雖然忍辱負重但始終努力認真生活的自己。

我知道responsible adult life有多苦多無奈，我真的知道。

這就是我們的青年和中年啊。