Belfast is an intimate portrait of an artist at his nascency.
, we see the young protagonist, Buddy , reading acomic book. Aha! A little joke—a reference to the fact that a version of this boy will one day go on to direct a movie version of. It is one of the film’s few direct acknowledgements that this story is about Branagh himself, though the entire movie hinges on us knowing who this otherwise average kid in 1969 Northern Ireland will turn out to be.
That is, I suppose, the demand of projects like this, which gesture toward larger social history but really are just an artist remembering, offering up musings on their childhood to give us a fuller picture of themselves. This can, in the wrong hands , come off as preening vanity, the way that self-obsessed people think every little detail of themselves is fascinating. But in, Branagh avoids such aggrandizement, partly because he did, actually, grow up in interesting times.
The city of Branagh’s youth was gripped by The Troubles, a conflict between unionist Northern Irish folk determined to stay in the United Kingdom and the republicans who wanted to break off and join Ireland. In Branagh’s, and now Buddy’s, neighborhood, Protestants like Buddy’s family had long lived in harmony with their Catholic neighbors. Much of that falls to ruin in the late 1960s, causing many families to leave their homes and relocate to, hopefully, more peaceful climes..
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