看完《猜火車2》，我重重地被擊中心臟，跌坐椅子上久久不能起。這是非常經典的續集，是給看過第一集影迷的集體同學會。Shock的不是中年主角的蒼老面容，也不再那麼前衛，而是每個傷痕累累的人身上，都有著我們需要的答案，也許這就是他們重逢的原因。生命並不溫柔，我們都只是時間的過客。我們變老了，世界也變了。但我們改變的會不會只有外表，其實內心根本沒有變？而「生活」，根本無從選擇。
二十年前的《猜火車》堪稱次文化經典電影，片尾馬克背叛了一起販毒的兄弟，捲款潜逃荷蘭試圖選擇中產階級生活；二十年後他一無所有地回到愛丁堡，想與當年所背叛的朋友重拾舊情。回到家鄉後發現有的還在吸毒、頹廢，有的還在坐牢。他們相聚後幹起同樣的勾當，只是海洛因變古柯鹼，把不法買賣變成騙政府資助。
頹廢似乎依然，但憤世轉化成厭世。人到中年，是不是很多事情已無法改變？縱使馬克做了選擇，最後仍然原地踏步。我們集體回望了從前，是否有感受到自己的存在意義？到底我們真的有「Choose Life」，還是只是命運對我們的戲弄？火車依然呼嘯而過，我們又要如何與生活和解？
60歲的丹尼．鮑伊在電影中更大的隱喻是蘇格蘭在英國的微妙地位，蘇格蘭反對脫歐並提出獨立公投，愛丁堡宛如一個歐洲縮影，在機場歡迎觀光客的，是斯洛文尼亞姑娘。真正地道的蘇格蘭猜火車四人幫，只能故技重彈，最後再次結束於背叛，維若妮卡攜金回到老家，第三世界的人民將是最後赢家。
放上電影經典金句抄錄：
第一集：
「Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?」
第二集：
「Choose life. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently. And choose watching history repeat itself. Choose your future. Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn. Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work. And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s kitchen. And then… take a deep breath. You’re an addict, so be addicted. Just be addicted to something else. Choose the ones you love. Choose your future. Choose life.」
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