Belfast is a beautiful and touching movie, that seeks to capture what life must have been like for just one family living in a Belfast neighbourhood as "the troubles" unfolded in the late 1960s. It captures the tragedy, stupidity, and humanity of civil war, violence, prejudice, and religion in its most divisive form.
The scene that I found the most poignant was when Ma and Pa (the wife and husband) argue about leaving Belfast for a better life in England. Ma says
"You an me, we have known each other since we
were toddlers. We’ve known this street, and every
street round it, all our lives, an every man, woman, an’
chil’ that lives in every bloody house, whether we like
it or not.
I like it.
An’ y’ say you’ve a wee garden for them boys? But
here they can play where the hell they like, cos
everybody knows them, everybody likes them, and
everybody looks after them.
If we go over the water, them people’s not gonna
undestan’ a word we say, an’ half o’ them’ll take the
hand outta us for soundin’ different.
The o’r half, they’ll hate us cos men here are killin
their young sons on our streets, an’ they think we
couldn’ give a shite.
Y’ think they’ll welcome us with open arms, an’ say
‘Come on in, an’ well done for stealin a house off of
us?’"
The movie is a great testimony to the value of community and of family.
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