Childhood memories in movies tend to be lovely or traumatised. At first, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast goes all-in on the former. The scene is black and white. In the backstreets of the Northern Irish capital, grinning kids play in front of terraced houses, a Shangri-La of cardboard swords and bin-lid shields. Parents enjoy the sun. But the date is specific: August 15 1969. Historians will tense. In real life, in that month sectarian riots erupted across the region. Shadowy figures duly loom. The camera jitters. Then that make-believe shield is called into defence against actual bricks.
電影中的童年記憶要麼是可愛的，要麼是痛苦的。在影片開始的時候，肯尼斯·布蘭納(Kenneth Branagh)導演的《貝兒法斯特》(Belfast)將所有重點都放在了前者身上。場景是黑白的。在北愛爾蘭首都的后街小巷裏，孩子們咧著嘴笑，在連棟房屋前玩耍。父母享受陽光。但那天的日期正好是：1969年8月15日。歷史學家看到這個日子，就知道應該緊張了。在現實生活中，那個月整個地區爆發了新教和天主教之間的宗派騷亂。暴力的陰影出現了。鏡頭開始抖動。然後，孩子的玩具盾牌被用來防禦真正的磚塊。