1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,922 (RUBY MURRAY) ♪ Softly, softly ♪ 3 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,281 ♪ come to me ♪ 4 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:56,964 ♪ Touch my lips so tenderly ♪ 5 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,642 ♪ Softly, softly ♪ 6 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,807 ♪ come to me ♪ 7 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:14,962 ♪ Touch my lips so tenderly ♪ 8 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,769 ♪ Softly, softly ♪ 9 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,129 ♪ turn the key ♪ 10 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:30,967 ♪ And open up my heart ♪ 11 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:37,080 ♪ Softly, softly ♪ 12 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,604 ♪ turn the key ♪ 13 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:46,291 ♪ And open up ♪ 14 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,720 ♪ my heart ♪ 15 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,204 (MARK COUSINS) I met a woman. 16 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,207 She said that she is Belfast, 17 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,851 the city in Northern Ireland where I grew up. 18 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,364 The woman said that she's as old as the city. 19 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,086 As she talked, I got drawn in. 20 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:30,964 She had a way of seeing, 21 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,242 a way of talking and hoping. 22 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,409 And, so, I listened. 23 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,644 (BELFAST) I'm glad you listened. 24 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,445 You didn't have to. 25 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,284 You've been away so long. 26 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,321 I didn't need to tell you my stories. 27 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:50,565 (COUSINS) Oh, I know. 28 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,690 BELFAST} You came back to Belfast, 29 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,286 like so many travelers went there. 30 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,927 Belfast's a port, a harbor. 31 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:00,690 We made the world's linen. 32 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,122 And ships for the seven seas. 33 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,607 (COUSINS) That's me, in the van on the bridge, 34 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:12,966 on my way home. 35 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,326 (BELFAST) You're a wee speck in the landscape. 36 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,528 I am the landscape. 37 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,680 When I say that I am Belfast, 38 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,122 I don't mean that I lived there, 39 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,209 or feel that I'm the place. 40 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,443 I am the place! 41 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,326 I'm ten thousand years old. 42 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,562 I'm from the time before. 43 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,089 You come from Belfast, 44 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,406 but do you know me? 45 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,165 My dream life? 46 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,162 I've had quite a dream life. 47 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,723 Can I tell you about it? 48 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,641 (COUSINS) I can see that you're going to. 49 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,682 (BELFAST) I know where to start. 50 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,123 Somewhere you won't know. 51 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:07,964 Let's fall to Earth. 52 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,561 Here. 53 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:12,571 Where's this? 54 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,208 Are we at the North Pole? 55 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,450 Or in the clouds? 56 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,011 Or on an ice planet? 57 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,568 This place could sink a ship. 58 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,687 But do you recognise that chimney stack? 59 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,086 We're home. 60 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:57,441 Me! 61 00:06:57,840 --> 00:06:59,763 That's the Shore Road mill. 62 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,164 Belfast is hiding behind this hill. 63 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,404 A salt hill. 64 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,131 What a morning. 65 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,724 Let's look at it together. 66 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,120 I'll take your hand. 67 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,641 (COUSINS) Okay. 68 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,563 BELFAST} Your hands are cold. 69 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,248 I'll tell you the story of Belfast. 70 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,611 Not the whole story, that would take years. 71 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,964 Just bits. Like scenes from movies. 72 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,600 (COUSINS) I like movies. 73 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,370 (BELFAST) Sure, don 't I know! 74 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,286 Come with me. 75 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,325 Let's get lost. 76 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,169 Somebody painted a wall golden, so I go to it. 77 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,567 The warm morning sun on my face, 78 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:45,284 and on the back of my neck. 79 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,011 The wall reflects it. 80 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,451 It's so nice here. 81 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,966 Let's wait a bit. 82 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,086 And listen. 83 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,002 Let's listen first, 84 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,170 and then look, 85 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,369 and then walk. 86 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:17,403 (MAN) She was coming down the Shankill, 87 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,522 hanging on to him like a bucket 0' skins. 88 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,726 (W OMAN) It's wonderful, it's marvelous. 89 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,524 So all the songs say, anyway. 90 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,648 I think it is, yes. Love's great. 91 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,451 (MAN) Well, the definition of love when we were children was... 92 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,922 It was jam rolling down your back and you couldn't get round to lick it! 93 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:34,849 (W ELL-TO-DO MAN'; And you will find 94 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,887 that here in this small community you love people, just like yourselves. 95 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,730 (BABY CRIES) 96 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,969 (W OMAN) "Barney Hughes' bread sticks to your belly like lead.“ 97 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,130 We played KDRF - Kick Doors, Run Fast- 98 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,731 which was terrible. 99 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,649 Looking back I regret it. 100 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:59,767 (MAN) A hardy, varied, self- reliant, individualistic wit. 101 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:02,201 (WOMAN) 'Fornenst' means in front of. 102 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,045 If somebody's sittin' fornenst me, 103 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,003 they're sittin' over there, just facing me. 104 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,561 (MAN) The men are great men. 105 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,247 The women are some of the best-looking women in the world. 106 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,321 (W OMAN) I always wanted to be a points peeler when I was a kid. 107 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,200 We had a great laugh before the fellas came in. 108 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,841 The girls would get up together and dance. 109 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,288 You know, if you're 'rightly' you're... 110 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,329 pretty stocious, like. 111 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:28,971 You're pretty drunk. 112 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,442 You never really looked at yourself much in the mirror 113 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:33,961 to see if you were big or small or anything. 114 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,402 (TRAFFIC NOISE) 115 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,168 (DOG BARKS) 116 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,526 (STREET NOISES) 117 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,088 (SILENCE) 118 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,607 (BELFAST) That's a good starting point, isn't it, 119 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,091 what that wee Belfast man said about love? 120 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,089 I was beautiful once. 121 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,881 But I wonder if I became ugly. 122 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,966 And if so, what made me ugly? 123 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,321 Can you guess? 124 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,601 (COUSINS) Maybe. 125 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,802 (BELFAST) I get the sweetest feeling. 126 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,126 Well, the definition of love when we were children was... 127 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,730 It was jam rolling down your back and you couldn't get round to lick it! 128 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,645 (COUSINS) See that wee man that compares love to jam? 129 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:51,962 Where else would you hear something that? 130 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,248 (BELFAST) Are you saying that Belfast's special? 131 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,001 (COUSINS) I dunno, I only lived here for twenty years. 132 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,288 (BELFAST) The older you get, 133 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,208 the harder it is to look in the mirror. 134 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,046 I've just had a cataract operation. 135 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,122 MY eyes got bad. 136 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:20,884 Cloudy and blurry. 137 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,727 So I read about people who used to be blind 138 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,882 and then had operations to see. 139 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,042 One wee girl thought lemonade would be square, 140 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,802 Because it pierced her tongue like the edge of a square. 141 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:50,121 Another blind person first saw her mother far away, 142 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,326 so thought she was just an inch tall. 143 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:06,324 People see me, Belfast, from far away, and think I'm an inch tall. 144 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,007 I can see more clearly now. 145 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:21,730 So, what are the first things about me that my new eyes see this morning 146 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:23,809 as we begin our journey? 147 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:26,121 A filament. 148 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,049 An incandescent place. 149 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,684 Seeing is just a kind of brightness. 150 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,006 Newly-sighted people see color patches 151 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,970 but are amazed that they can move past them, 152 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,685 that there are more color patches behind them. 153 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,363 When I now look at myself, I see color. 154 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:36,602 A riot of color. 155 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,125 A Rothko painting on the Shankill. 156 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,770 The painter Van Gogh once did a picture of flowers in a vase. 157 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,762 But he didn't call it Flowers in a Vase, 158 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,447 He called it Color Study. 159 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,769 This is a color study. 160 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,246 Steel-gray and purple. 161 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,881 A plan for a painting of Belfast. 162 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,127 Of me! 163 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,765 A self-portrait. 164 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,402 And if you think this talk of color in Belfast is too fancy, 165 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,331 look at this. 166 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,211 It's the old mill building we saw from the salt hill. 167 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,569 A study in brick-red and white. 168 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,606 And, in case we didn't notice its color, 169 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,725 workmen have left their tin hut in front of it. 170 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,210 Which is painted in the same white and orange. 171 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:41,964 A color study. 172 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,201 The sculpted heads on the building are of William Wordsworth, 173 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,331 Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Galileo. 174 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,124 All of whom I knew. 175 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,170 Only joking- 176 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:57,642 I only knew two of them! 177 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,450 And kissed one. 178 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,965 It's the Jennymount Mill. 179 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,201 An Italian palazzo, built in the late 1800s. 180 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,931 We made more linen than anywhere in the world. 181 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,602 Mostly women worked here. 182 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,889 The supervisors were men. 183 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,404 There were kids as young as eight. 184 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,610 The workers stood in water in their bare feet. 185 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,569 Rats ran around them. 186 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,969 It was so noisy that the women became lip readers. 187 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:42,685 Let's walk on. 188 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,171 Look at this lovely turquoise building. 189 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,405 Touches of orange in the wood in its windows. 190 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,926 What would make this image perfect is 191 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,123 if someone dressed in orange would walk past it. 192 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,163 And look at these colors. 193 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,370 An autumn riot. 194 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,685 You only need a touch of yellow. 195 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:29,611 That's better. 196 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:33,124 Am I magicing these things? 197 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:39,965 (COUSINS) Are you? 198 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,325 Did you arrange that? 199 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,051 (BELFAST) What do you think? 200 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,404 And also with my new eyes 201 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,842 I notice how theatrical we are. 202 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,962 Boy, do we put on a show! 203 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:05,764 This is a proscenium. 204 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,291 A stage. 205 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,087 So much of what I, Belfast, am is a stage. 206 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:16,685 Or a frame. 207 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:54,605 I look at myself today, and see that Elvis is in the building. 208 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,764 We're very good at framing ourselves, aren't we? 209 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:07,202 The old cranes were only built since Ruby Murray sang 'Softly, Softly'. 210 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,162 But they're always somewhere. 211 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:14,729 Looking over the stage, 212 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,049 like an impresario. 213 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,406 "Softer than satin was the light." 214 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,842 Crime could happen here. 215 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,209 Love might happen here. 216 00:19:58,120 --> 00:19:59,645 The light flickers 217 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:01,851 like it's screaming. 218 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,050 Like it's warning. 219 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:06,808 Like a hummingbird's wings. 220 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,843 "Misty watercolor memories of the way we were." 221 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:22,725 A crime scene. 222 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:24,645 A rhyme scene. 223 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,570 A time scene. 224 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,525 I hope you're enjoying this walking, this looking. 225 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,569 (COUSINS) I am, you're my kind of girl. 226 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:37,125 (BELFAST LAUGHS) 227 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:39,571 (BELFAST) Waking up. 228 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:41,404 Walls have eyes. 229 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,204 De Chirico. 230 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,327 A touch of Hitchcock's Marnie. 231 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:51,880 Shadowlands. 232 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,283 A mum and child's shadows. 233 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,726 Birds. Hitchcock birds. 234 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,684 A head pops out. 235 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,370 A dreamscape. 236 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,762 This boy became a boxing trainer. 237 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,123 Can I tell you where I began? 238 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:41,964 How did Belfast start? 239 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,605 Can we flashback? 240 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,447 When you're old, that's how your mind works. 241 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,171 Something now reminds you of something then. 242 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,965 The name of one of my rivers means "where the sweet water meets the salt". 243 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,370 That's how I started. 244 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,401 Here. 245 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,848 Where the river meets the sea. 246 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,369 Sweet meets salt. 247 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,449 Is that what I am? 248 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,765 Is that what we are? 249 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,565 Salt and sweet? 250 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,644 Like hard and soft. 251 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,809 Look at these two guys walking towards each other. 252 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,443 Salt and sweet. 253 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,722 Do they look each other in the eye? 254 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:40,566 If so, what do they see? 255 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,409 The same type of creature, or an alien? 256 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,406 What's that word in white on the wall between them? 257 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:51,970 Is it 'fetid'? 258 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:53,641 'Forbid'? 259 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:54,807 'Flaccid'? 260 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,522 Will one of them pull a knife? 261 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,042 Or will they shake hands? 262 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,043 Or say, “what about ya?” 263 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,368 Or try to kiss the other? 264 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,241 Or bow their head and walk past? 265 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,320 Oh God, we've only been here half a day 266 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,046 and I'm already on salt and sweet. 267 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:34,530 And this place built on mud and sand, salt and sweet, is a small place, isn't it? 268 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,406 (COUSINS) Yeah, when you've been away it feels small. 269 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,248 The way we say 'wee' all the time: "A wee cuppa tea", "A wee minute". 270 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,601 BELFAST} Back where the Rothko mural is, 271 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:51,330 Eleanor Roosevelt talks about smallness. 272 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,448 What a thing to write on a wall! 273 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,242 That universal rights start in small places. 274 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,729 There's plenty of reading here. 275 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,763 You could read me like a book. 276 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,728 It's time to think about the people who entered the land of salt and sweet. 277 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,205 They played- 278 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,446 Grew up. 279 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,771 Came and went. 280 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,410 Made mistakes. 281 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,967 Buggered off to pastures new. 282 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,210 Had opinions. 283 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,730 Put on masks. 284 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,129 Loved and hated. 285 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,770 Worshipped gods. 286 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,045 Knew what they were doing and hadn't a clue. 287 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,768 And we thought. 288 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,610 Right here, in 1792, 289 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,764 we paraded to support the French Revolution, 290 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,568 the fail of the Bastille, and Poland's resistance against Russia. 291 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,882 (COUSINS) We 're quite good at parades. 292 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,448 (BELFAST) Resolutions were passed by a lawyer called Theobald Wolfe Tone. 293 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,203 We drank to political solidarity between Catholics and Protestants. 294 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,209 To universal suffrage. 295 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,205 The influence of Thomas Paine, whom I knew. 296 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,241 Those were the days, my friend. 297 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,523 And we had our own language. 298 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,163 When we said "do you mind?" 299 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,767 we meant both “do you care?” and “do you remember?” 300 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,089 I became a world. 301 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,364 A place where people moved in all directions. 302 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,003 I felt like a points peeler. 303 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,523 Do you know what a points peeler is? 304 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,681 (COUSINS) No. 305 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,609 (BELFAST) Suppose you're too young. 306 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,250 I'll tell you later. 307 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,126 When I looked at myself in the mirror back then, what did I see? 308 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,405 A city that was brilliant, friendly, 309 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,444 volcanic, inward, outward, 310 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,410 homophobic, creative, loquacious, 311 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,604 feminine, déclassé, romantic, 312 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,444 sentimental, pious 313 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,960 and edgy 314 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,169 (COUSINS) I’m out of breath, running around you. 315 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:57,885 BELFAST} I'm sure you are! 316 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,290 And have you ever noticed that we're surreal, too? 317 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:09,926 Like this place. 318 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,211 It's afternoon. 319 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,726 Where are we now? 320 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,650 Jurassic Park? 321 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,721 This is where the Co-op was. 322 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,883 In 1888 it had 200 members. 323 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,211 80 years later, it had 192,000. 324 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,087 We knew how to co-operate. 325 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,611 Work together. 326 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,766 We got things on credit for three month here, 327 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,050 then paid the bill off, four times a year. 328 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,043 We called it the co-quarter. 329 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,367 Everybody was broke at the co-quarter. 330 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,404 Pockets were empty. 331 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,042 At Christmas, all the kids visited Santa's grotto here. 332 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,964 Now, these yellow dinosaurs munch here. 333 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,240 We sang, of course. 334 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,204 Ho-ho, did we sing! 335 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,246 And we drank. 336 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,530 And combined the two. 337 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,168 (DICKIE ROCK) ♪ We'll walk ♪ 338 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,368 ♪ the road of life together ♪ 339 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,204 ♪ day by day ♪ 340 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,644 ♪ And I will love you ♪ 341 00:28:53,880 --> 00:29:00,525 ♪ every step of the way ♪ 342 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,004 ♪ The road may wind ♪ 343 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:12,242 ♪ beneath the sky of blue or gray ♪ 344 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:18,002 ♪ And I will love you ♪ 345 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:24,366 ♪ every step of the way ♪ 346 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:32,084 ♪ So only love me ♪ 347 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:38,806 ♪ and love me only ♪ 348 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,440 ♪ And we will never walk with loneliness ♪ 349 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:55,080 ♪ For just as sure as every April turns to May ♪ 350 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,883 ♪ So will I love you ♪ 351 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:12,930 ♪ every step of the way ♪ 352 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,884 (BELFAST) And, by the way, this is a points pee/er. 353 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,561 And time passed, and the Earth turned, in this center of nowhere. 354 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:39,885 And the rain came. 355 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:47,687 ♪ ...as every April turns to May ♪ 356 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:53,163 ♪ So will I love you ♪ 357 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,800 ♪ every step of the way ♪ 358 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,049 (BELFAST) And then shadows. 359 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:12,249 ♪ I'll only love you ♪ 360 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,010 ♪ every step ♪ 361 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:26,362 ♪ of the way ♪ 362 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,131 (SILENCE) 363 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,641 (BELFAST) And then, like a tracking shot, the iceberg hit. 364 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,690 We fought each other. 365 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,846 Is now a good time to talk about it? 366 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,963 Is it ever a good time? 367 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,010 (COUSINS) You decide. 368 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,890 (BELFAST) I'd prefer not to. 369 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:05,930 (COUSINS) But you have to. 370 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,646 (BELFAST) Did we judder to the Troubles? 371 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,203 To our latest war, which still troubles us? 372 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,888 Or do we glide there? 373 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,406 Over decades or days, for good reasons and bad, 374 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,922 we peered over the top of things, and down into the depths. 375 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,091 Salt and sweet. 376 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,521 Nationalist and Unionist. 377 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,809 The two sides in our war went wild. 378 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:44,241 ('THE SOLDIER'S SONG' CLASHES WITH 'THE SASH MY FATHER WORE') 379 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,564 (BELFAST) People like us came here, like they did in the 1600s. 380 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,724 They came with guns and accents. 381 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,523 They were new blood. 382 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,882 There was a lot of walking. 383 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,730 And salt and sweet forced each other apart. 384 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,685 In a few months, in one area alone, 385 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,566 1,505 Catholic 386 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,329 and 315 Protestant families were made to move. 387 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,447 The largest enforced movement of people since World War Two. 388 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,001 Are you too young to remember this? 389 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,846 (COUSINS) I remember feelings, not facts. 390 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,561 I remember the nervousness. 391 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,843 (BELFAST) Do you want me to stop? 392 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,085 (COUSINS) Yes and no. 393 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,168 I want to know, and don't. 394 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,808 (BELFAST) I could soften the story. 395 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,168 (COUSINS) Don't soften the story. 396 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,040 (BELFAST) Okay. 397 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,244 Our buses became skeletons. 398 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,085 Soon, CS gas canisters were used in my streets. 399 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:24,560 Soldiers raided houses on the Falls Road, and then blockaded the area. 400 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,164 Their commanders had told them that there were republican combatants there. 401 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,441 Get her! 402 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:43,568 (WOMEN SHOUTING) 403 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,208 (SOLDIER) Watch your backs! 404 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,210 Get that cannon over here. 405 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,171 There! 406 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,283 (BELFAST) The people who lived in the area quickly ran out of food. 407 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,807 So, a thousand women who lived up the hill, here in the Ardoyne, 408 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:19,204 filled their children's prams with bread and milk and wheeled them down. 409 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,765 More walking. 410 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,088 An armada of walking. 411 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,528 The army opened the blockade, 412 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,046 the siege, 413 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,326 for two hours, to let them in. 414 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:51,007 Things that couldn't happen, did. 415 00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:00,768 Cave Hill, the mountain behind me, where people had lived from the Iron Age, 416 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,010 where Charles Dickens walked when he visited Belfast, turned on its head. 417 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,570 On the 10th of March 1971, 418 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,808 three Scottish soldiers were drinking in a bar in town. 419 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,122 They were grabbed and taken up the hill. 420 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:27,161 Maybe they walked the same route as Dickens had, 113 years earlier. 421 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:35,402 Whilst they were having a piss, the soldiers were shot in the head. 422 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,729 They spouted two liquids, blood and piss, at the same time. 423 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,121 Do you continue to piss when a hole has been blown in your brain? 424 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,248 The soldiers were 17, 18 and 25. 425 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,926 Two days later, 4,000 dockers downed their tools in the shipyards 426 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,889 and marched in protest. 427 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,644 And there's something I didn't tell you about this place 428 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,722 with the salt and sweet guys. 429 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:25,725 They walk on. 430 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,128 One passes McGurk's bar. 431 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,086 On the evening of the 4th of December 1971, it was busy. 432 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:34,890 Christmas was coming. 433 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,649 The bar's owner, Paddy McGurk, was serving drinks. 434 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,248 He was proud of his place. 435 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,850 He didn't allow swearing. 436 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,162 There was a swear box on the counter. 437 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,328 At 8:45pm, a bomb exploded in the bar, 438 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,246 killing 15 people, and wounding 17 more. 439 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:10,366 MuGurk's wife and daughter both died, and he and his three sons were injured. 440 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,971 A few hours later, he went on TV 441 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,566 to say that he prayed for the bombers 442 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,769 and asking that his family's deaths should not be avenged. 443 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,366 Many of the bodies were unrecognizable, 444 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,241 but when one young man opened his father's coffin, 445 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,045 he saw that the remains had ten fingers. 446 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,600 His father had lost a finger in a work accident, so had only nine. 447 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,082 So, the young man had to go around the houses of the other bereaved families 448 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,171 and look in the other coffins to find his father's actual remains. 449 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,567 The victims were all Catholics, 450 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,922 but one soldier sent a wreath to their funerals. 451 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,923 The song 'Bits and Pieces', by the Dave Clark Five, 452 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,361 was in the pop charts at the time. 453 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,361 Some observers, from the opposite side of the religious divide, 454 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:23,129 sang it as the coffins carrying the body parts were carried to their graves. 455 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,962 The pub was destroyed, yet it's visually here. 456 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:37,406 Local people have painted the likeness of it on this underpass, where it once was. 457 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,325 A trompe I'oeil. 458 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,325 A creative response to destruction. 459 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,164 Seven months later. 460 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,401 It's Friday the 21st of July 1972. 461 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,129 A hot summer day. 462 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,447 Seagulls are flying around me. 463 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,608 The bomb goes off. 464 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,569 People run away from it. 465 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,325 Then another goes off. 466 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:41,886 And another. 467 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,887 26 in just over an hour. 468 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:49,687 The bombers said they wanted to make of me “a commercial desert”. 469 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,249 11 people die and 130 are injured. 470 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,731 Body parts are scattered all over me. 471 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,283 The seagulls dive into the bodies and eat. 472 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,241 The people who see this are disgusted. 473 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,127 Shocked. 474 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,330 I had a dream about it. 475 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,768 Have you ever dreamt about the Troubles? 476 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,361 (COUSINS) Of course 477 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,961 BELFAST} I dream that I'm flying over Belfast, like a seagull. 478 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,569 I look down at myself. 479 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,729 In my dream, it's that day. 480 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:01,888 I see clouds of smoke 481 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,526 and dive and eat. 482 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,249 We were just food for the seagulls. Just meat. 483 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,570 Were we also just meat for each other? 484 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,880 In all our fighting, have we scavenged on each other? 485 00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:27,643 The seagulls knew no better. 486 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,246 Do we? 487 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,162 Are we that detached? 488 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,810 That aloft? 489 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,169 There's an old silent film, colored and flickering, 490 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,248 in which the dead of World War One 491 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,728 stand up from their graves and go back to their village 492 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,566 to see if their murder had changed anything. 493 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,770 Ominous skies, 494 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,160 pink light. 495 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,889 It was shocking for its time. A moral challenge. 496 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,567 If our dead, from that July day, had come back 497 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,526 would they have found us changed? 498 00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:19,726 Shocked? 499 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:22,805 Chastened? 500 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,086 God, such stories. 501 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,684 I feel safe back here at my salt hill. 502 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,329 Such dreams unsettle me. 503 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,284 I want to hide from them. 504 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,084 Did I become ugly? Of course I did! 505 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,089 From 1971 to 1991, 506 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:55,843 the population of Belfast dropped from 400,000 to just 281,000. 507 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:02,330 119,000 people gave up on me. 508 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:05,684 (COUSINS) I was one of them. 509 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:07,531 (BELFAST) Quite right. 510 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:10,811 If I could have run, I would have run. 511 00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:14,364 But things got better. 512 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:20,202 At our listening walls, our wailing walls, we heard news. 513 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,004 (REPORTER 1) It's just been announced that... 514 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,721 (REPORTER 2) At a few minutes past 11am the waiting and the speculation ended... 515 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,003 (REPORTER 1) As of midnight, August the 31st... 516 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,801 (REPORTER 2) A statement from the IRA leadership had finally materialized, 517 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,009 and its key clause read: "The leadership of the IRA 518 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,004 "have decided that, as of midnight, August 31 st, 519 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,050 "there will be a complete cessation of military operations." 520 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,047 (GUSTY SPENCE) In all sincerity, in all sincerity, 521 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,249 we offer to the loved ones 522 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,451 of all innocent victims over the past 25 years 523 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,930 abject and true remorse. 524 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:06,007 No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering 525 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,766 they have undergone during this conflict. 526 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:14,009 Let us firmly resolve, therefore, to respect our differing views 527 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,602 of freedom, culture and aspiration, 528 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:21,520 and never again permit our political circumstances 529 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,405 to degenerate into bloody warfare. 530 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,926 (BELFAST) "Abject and true remorse." 531 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:34,730 What words! 532 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,284 It's like we woke up! 533 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,406 What did we see when the storm passed? 534 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,850 We saw that we'd been blasted sideways. 535 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,322 We saw good things. 536 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,042 Shops came to Belfast, and cafés. 537 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:00,050 (COUSINS) And cross-community initiatives and agencies. 538 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:01,810 (BELFAST) People from other countries. 539 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,530 (COUSINS) And glass buildings. 540 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,648 BELFAST} And penthouses, and a waterfront 541 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,444 and a cathedral quarter. 542 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,922 After the war, we had hope. 543 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,685 Jam was running down our backs, and we licked it and licked it. 544 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,683 (COUSINS) And licked it. 545 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,889 (BELFAST) And on sunny days, doors darted light beams. 546 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,165 That old luminosity was still there. 547 00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,202 In old streets that we always called the Holy Land, 548 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,207 Palestine Street, Jerusalem Street, 549 00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,330 people from Asia and the Middle East moved in 550 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,528 and lived their lives their ways. 551 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,449 Let's go back to where the Rothko painting was. 552 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,690 Where Eleanor Roosevelt talked of smallness. 553 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,363 The place is called Hopewell. 554 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,849 That's what we're doing, hoping well. 555 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,640 Somebody's turning lights on and off. 556 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,602 It says in the papers that less than 1% of people 557 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:24,769 who live here get to go to higher education. 558 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,843 And that there are high levels of mental health problems. 559 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,008 And so they hope well. 560 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,244 And look, 561 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,923 these geese have never been here before. 562 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,170 Nearby, the old court is like Miss Havisham. 563 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,165 Charlie Dickens, up in the hills, would have loved it. 564 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,128 And there were other good things. 565 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,522 Let's stop at this famous place. 566 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,568 The New Lodge. 567 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:34,250 Built, not very well, to house as many people as possible. 568 00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,211 But they were poor people, so they didn't matter. 569 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:43,969 There's what you'd expect: 570 00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,202 razor wire on the bottom right; 571 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,325 messages about the IRA hunger strikers on the top of the flats. 572 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,161 Because of drive by-shootings, and other things, 573 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,370 this was the most dangerous place to stand during the Troubles. 574 00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:08,562 Yet, look, there's magic here. 575 00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,760 Suddenly, I'm on this crane. 576 00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,249 It rises. 577 00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:27,008 I'm like a seagull flying up around the flats. 578 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,529 I'm a camera on a crane, in a Hollywood movie, 579 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,204 filming a dance routine. 580 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:34,401 (COUSINS) Maybe Gene Kelly? 581 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,246 (BELFAST) Or Fred Astaire? Or Ginger Rodgers? 582 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,605 Shall we make a musical about the New Lodge? 583 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,570 Someone coming to live here, 584 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:50,087 from Poland or Lithuania? 585 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:17,084 And, after the storm passed, we noticed other good things. 586 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:23,441 We made ships, and linen, and music, and war, and peace here. 587 00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,329 But, people, too. 588 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,804 People from Hopewell and the New Lodge, 589 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,247 the Antrim Road and the Holy Land, 590 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,886 the Ormeau and Orangefield. 591 00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,325 A man's lying in the hot afternoon sun today. 592 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:42,886 A pieté. 593 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,170 He's going to burn. 594 00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,121 He's us. He's me. 595 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,090 Two women see him. 596 00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,205 The one in turquoise tells her friend to leave him alone. 597 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,043 But the one in black can't help herself. She has to help. 598 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,331 More people. 599 00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:09,881 Four now. 600 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,288 You can't just leave a guy like that. 601 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,610 In Belfast, you can't. 602 00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,531 Or can you? 603 00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:20,406 Yes. 604 00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:25,881 No. 605 00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,448 That's what hope looks like. 606 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,211 And have you heard of Rosie and Maud? 607 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:41,282 (COUSINS) No. 608 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,807 BELFAST} Oh, you have to meet Rosie and Maud. 609 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:45,689 They're in this café behind me. 610 00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:46,886 In you go! 611 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,007 (MAUD) Yes, so "hi". Go on, love 612 00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:52,761 (COUSINS) How long have you known each other? 613 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,645 - (ROSIE) About 7 years. - Oh fuck, 7 or 8 years, love. 614 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,371 Fuck, it's been mustard, too, like. You know what I mean, but. 615 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,085 (ROSIE) We've had good times and bad times, but. 616 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,281 (COUSINS) So did you click at once? 617 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,243 - (ROSIE) Oh, aye! - Oh, fuck, aye! 618 00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,442 - Fucking right. - (ROSIE) We clicked at once, yes, yes. 619 00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:07,926 (COUSINS) Why did you click? 620 00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,731 She said something to me and I answered her fucking back. 621 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,247 I said "fuck" something to her. 622 00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,244 - And I answered her back: "Fuck off!" - And she said "fuck" something back. 623 00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,249 (ROSE) I was engaged at 16, married 19. 624 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,243 - (COUSINS) 16? - (ROSIE) Aye. 625 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,926 And we're 51 years together, this year. 626 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:24,930 (MAUD) And I was never married. 627 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:26,371 Mine was a common law marriage. 628 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,283 She has four children but she's never lost her virginity. 629 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:29,242 And I still haven't. 630 00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,044 - (COUSINS) That's... that's... - Isn't that great? 631 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:32,246 (COUSINS) That's a miracle. 632 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:33,845 - I loved Elvis. Oh! - (MAUD) I don't like Elvis. 633 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,126 (COUSINS) Did you like the slower Elvis, 634 00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,321 - or the fast ones? - Yes! 635 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,529 See his first film, Flaming Star'? I still have it. 636 00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:42,322 Yeah, 'Love Me Tender' and all them. 637 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,564 The only reason a married me aul' lad, 'cause he'd black hair. 638 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:46,761 (MAUD LAUGHS) 639 00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,242 I swear to God, I'll show you a photo of me and him on my wedding day. 640 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,880 And here's me: "Fuck, he's a wee bit like Elvis," like. 641 00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,202 - And the Yanks were always in. - (COUSINS) The Yanks? 642 00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,647 Tell him about the Texan you met, love. 643 00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,320 That wasn't a Texan, he was a fucking Yank, you! 644 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,204 And she met him in The Plaza. 645 00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,561 And you know what you called him? Fucking Jesse James! 646 00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,047 - That's true. - Swear to fuck! Jesse James! 647 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,208 - And he left her home. - And he got me drunk! 648 00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,243 And when I got to the door, 649 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,044 I fell out of the fucking taxi. 650 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,082 Onto my box of chocolates! 651 00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:17,402 - And my ma was an aul' targer. - That's true! 652 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,002 She came out of the fucking house and was beating the fucking head of me, 653 00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,441 and says to my brother: "Get her fucking in there." 654 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,325 And here's me: "Oh, please ma, please. I'm all right, I'm all right." 655 00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,530 And I got in and she wouldn't let me go out to see the fucking Yank again! 656 00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,161 (ROSE) I didn't like The Beatles. Nah, they annoyed me. 657 00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,521 Oh, for fuck's sake! They were ugly-looking. 658 00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,768 Didn't like the Rolling Stones because of his mouth. 659 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,201 His foot-long mouth of his! Jesus Christ! 660 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,571 (MAUD) His lips was ten size of mine, for fuck's sake! 661 00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:44,370 - Out to there - Uugghh! 662 00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,006 Sure, look at Jim Reeves and all, you know. 663 00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,766 I was very romantic, were you not? 664 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:51,046 Course I fucking was! 665 00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,122 (ROSE) I walked from The Plaza, 666 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:57,570 up through Sandy Row, up the Donegal Road, and into my house 667 00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,166 and people would have stood at the door and said "hello" to me. 668 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:04,968 We walked home with a crowd, half went to Sandy Row, half went to the Botanic. 669 00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,845 All mixed religions, and yet we all went out together. 670 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,401 (MAUD) We did, like. There was nothing bad in them fucking days. 671 00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:12,761 And the day I got married, there was five people, 672 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,650 four from the Shankill and two from Sandy Row, at my wedding. 673 00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,762 (MAUD) Aye, and there was nobody at mine. 674 00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,323 Fuck, you didn't have a fucking wedding, Maud. You weren't married! 675 00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,127 I fucking know I wasn't married, it was a common law marriage. 676 00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:25,804 It may as well have been a fucking marriage 677 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,848 because he beat the fucking crap out of me anyway. 678 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,321 - Did you not have a honeymoon? - Yes, of course I did, yeah. 679 00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:32,124 Fine, you were fucking married then. 680 00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:35,562 See I told you, fuck's sake. Fucking hell, am I married? 681 00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,007 Fuck's sake. 682 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:39,611 You know what I say to God? 683 00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,130 "Please forgive me." 684 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,521 (ROSIE) For how many times she said "fuck". 685 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,204 I said "fuck" a couple of times. 686 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,129 And here's me: "Oh, God, I didn't mean that." 687 00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:48,571 Here's me: "Forgive me." 688 00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,166 And then I just go to fucking sleep afterwards. 689 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,450 He probably knows what I'm like anyway. 690 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,531 The only thing we haven't lost right now is our virginity. 691 00:55:57,640 --> 00:55:59,563 We've lost every ha'penny we ever earned. 692 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:01,689 Have you got yours, love? 693 00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:02,926 (COUSINS) Still intact. 694 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:04,604 - Oooooh! - Have you? Fuck, that's great! 695 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,131 Oh fuck, you'll do me lovely. 696 00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,085 Oh, here, fuck. Isn't that great? 697 00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,887 C'mon over here, love. C'mon. 698 00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,010 It'll only take five minutes, believe you me, we're quick! 699 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,521 We don't need a cover or anything, you know what I mean. 700 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,928 No, well, when you hear of anything, you can come and visit us half the day. 701 00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,884 Yes, uh-huh, you don't need your umbrella on the day. 702 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:25,161 C'mon, love. 703 00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,091 Ah, c'mon, for fuck's sake. Stop teasing people. 704 00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,404 We're not that bad, you know what I mean, love. We're not really. 705 00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:33,371 (COUSINS) Thelma and Louise. 706 00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,289 (BELFAST) Exactly. 707 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,931 Somebody should write a country song. 708 00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:44,090 'The Ballad of Rosie and Maud: A Catholic and a Protestant'. 709 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,128 Tell me theirs isn't lovely talk. 710 00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,642 Tell me they aren't diamonds. 711 00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,366 I wish the rest of my story could be full of diamonds, but it can't. 712 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:02,650 When the storm cleared 713 00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:05,129 it also left something bad. 714 00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:06,647 Walls. 715 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,162 Our Berlin Walls. 716 00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:15,002 Today, we've more walls keeping salt and sweet apart than I can ever remember. 717 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:16,925 Want to see them? 718 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:18,281 (COUSINS) Yeah. 719 00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:19,401 (BELFAST) You sure? 720 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:21,240 (COUSINS) They're there aren't they? 721 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:22,800 (BELFAST) Okay. 722 00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,365 Here's one in the East. 723 00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,642 Triple height for full effect. 724 00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:33,327 Brick, then iron, then mesh. 725 00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:41,924 Then fluttering above it all, the flag that the Unionists love. 726 00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,365 High enough to be seen from the other side. 727 00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,090 For maximum annoyance and pride. 728 00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,731 And jump to here. To a Catholic road. Or what used to be a road. 729 00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:08,364 Now it's a blind alley. 730 00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,720 Waves of salt and sweet can crash against this peace wall, 731 00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,601 this sea wall covered in seaweed, 732 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:17,525 but they don't get through. 733 00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,243 Five types of fence in this one place alone. 734 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,249 Walk up to the top of the street, to this corner. 735 00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,689 The silver car turns down the Catholic hill. 736 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,007 The road to the left is Protestant. 737 00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,366 The house in the middle has iron railings on its windows 738 00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:47,727 to stop them being broken by bricks. 739 00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,247 Above the house, we can just see the top of the peace line. 740 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,603 The house to its left has had white paint thrown at it. 741 00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:11,404 Look at the pavement. 742 00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,009 It goes from Catholic, with no paint on its kerb, 743 00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,808 to red and white, the beginning of the Protestant kerb. 744 00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:20,924 Fornenst each other. 745 00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:27,361 This split in me seems as solid as concrete, as tarmac. 746 00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,281 I wish it were shadow play. 747 00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:42,090 I wish my walls had electric shadows on them, or movies. 748 00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,161 Morning sun on cars commuting 749 00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,567 or speeding to the Mourne mountains, 750 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,531 so that their drivers can walk and sing in the mountains 751 00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,365 like Julie Andrews or Ruby Murray. 752 00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,641 I wish my walls grew things. 753 01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:08,043 I wish those things -ivy, wall flowers -would break open the walls. 754 01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,044 I wish our walls were gold. 755 01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:54,370 Like Johnny Cash, 756 01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,166 to end this trip 757 01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:58,251 I walk the line. 758 01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:01,770 A yellow brick road. 759 01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:05,370 Autumn's lines. 760 01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:10,250 A thin blue line. 761 01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:14,648 Sometimes there's a lovely line. 762 01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,685 Like this, down by the docks. 763 01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:20,882 A snail's silver trail. 764 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,291 Its morse code took it to the road 765 01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:27,442 and then back home, safe. 766 01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,404 How often will I walk this town? 767 01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,402 For how many more years? 768 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,725 Will I always have to walk straight lines? 769 01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:42,804 (COUSINS) Berlin Wall's down. 770 01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,048 Our walls need to come down. 771 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,051 (BELFAST) Or just blur. 772 01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:48,406 Blurring's good. 773 01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:50,888 It means something different here. 774 01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,566 Sometimes we've been great at blurred lines. 775 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,682 At being two things at once. 776 01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,050 Before your time, one of our comedians, 777 01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,647 James Young, was a man but played a woman. 778 01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,802 I can still see his sketches. 779 01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:09,089 Like the one about why we would never go on holidays abroad... 780 01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:13,205 Yes, we never go abroad. I wouldn't be bothered with that 781 01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:17,968 because my maw has a wee cottage at Bally-Go-Bent. 782 01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:19,769 It's down on the coast road. 783 01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,280 And we would go down there of a set time. 784 01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,688 My man always takes the twelfth fortnight because the factory 785 01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,923 he works at night closes down for the twelfth fortnight. 786 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,241 And he hasn't been well hisself all winter. 787 01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:32,521 My nerves are away to bits. 788 01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,251 I underwent a very serious operation. 789 01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,250 And he always takes the twelfth fortnight. So I said to him, 790 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,802 "Tommy," I says, "this year," I says, "just take three weeks." 791 01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:45,362 He says, "'l will not, indeed," he says, "because if I took an extra week 792 01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:48,683 "and the place was open they would find out that I do nothing anyway 793 01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:50,728 "and I might have no job left." 794 01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:55,608 It's awful what people have to go through, twelfth week and all. 795 01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,761 And even some of our hard men blurred lines 796 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,247 by having a touch of girl about them. 797 01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:11,646 One member of the Ulster Defence Association, 798 01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:12,846 Sammy Duddy, 799 01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:14,849 was also known as Samantha, 800 01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,403 a drag artist and the Dolly Parton of Belfast. 801 01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:25,129 On one attempt to murder him, he escaped, 802 01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:29,247 but his pet Chihuahua, Bambi, was killed instead. 803 01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,768 And what about Lord Arthur Chichester, 804 01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,411 who sort of founded me, Belfast? 805 01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,043 Or so the history books say, in the 1600s. 806 01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:43,005 Look at his eyebrows! 807 01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:45,841 Marlene Dietrich eyebrows. 808 01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:56,530 Salt and sweet, 809 01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:58,205 man and woman, 810 01:03:58,360 --> 01:03:59,885 day and night. 811 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,843 They should all merge. 812 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,002 That's what I want to say to you. 813 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,410 Don't just look at Belfast, imagine Belfast. 814 01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:08,971 Me! 815 01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,641 That's what the painter of this mural did. 816 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:15,964 It's a dreamscape. 817 01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:47,887 The Giant's Causeway, on the left. 818 01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:49,366 Titanic. 819 01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:52,366 The cranes, all coming out of the water. 820 01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,331 The real world, pushed to the far right. 821 01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,648 And then this man in blue. 822 01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:05,282 The things his eyes have seen. 823 01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:10,882 Has he cataracts now? 824 01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:17,731 Maybe cataracts come if you see too much. 825 01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,530 Eyes cloud over. 826 01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,367 He's old enough to have worked in the docks. 827 01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:33,648 Can you imagine what it's like to be him? 828 01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,083 What would be his favourite song? 829 01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,448 "Chantily lace with a pretty face"? 830 01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,561 Has he gout from too much booze? 831 01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:45,804 Did he paint this picture? 832 01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,282 Is this his inner Belfast? 833 01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:51,325 Are we going deeper? 834 01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,921 (COUSINS) I see images of the Titanic everywhere now in Belfast. 835 01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,328 The Hollywood movie brought them back. 836 01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,326 The tourists wanna see where it was made. 837 01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:06,970 That old joke: “It was fine when it left here.” 838 01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:11,047 (BELFAST) God, it was gorgeous. 839 01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,726 It was like New York when it went. 840 01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,129 And then it sank, and we hardly spoke about it. 841 01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:20,211 Like a taboo, like a war. 842 01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:23,409 And now it's back and we talk about it a lot. 843 01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:28,051 Things that are held down come up again. 844 01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:32,568 Hope is a release. 845 01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:36,003 It releases fears and dreams. 846 01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,729 (COUSINS) My friends and I talk about the Troubles sometimes. 847 01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:42,526 One night we got drunk and cried. 848 01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:45,331 (BELFAST) You cried about what's beneath the surface. 849 01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,001 Hope releases monsters. 850 01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:50,643 (COUSINS) Like the creature from the black lagoon. 851 01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:54,691 In that old B-movie, he symbolized unconscious things too. 852 01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:56,647 (BELFAST) Yes. 853 01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,884 Now that it's over, we're shocked by what we did. 854 01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:04,286 Underwater Belfast can surface again, into the daylight. 855 01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:09,687 In his cheap 1950s rubber suit, the creature swims through reeds, 856 01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:11,290 through dark water. 857 01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,605 She's filmed above him, in the light, like desire. 858 01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,165 She's me. 859 01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:24,125 (COUSINS) And me. 860 01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:30,882 BELFAST} He's like her bad memories. 861 01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:32,725 Grabbing at her. 862 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:35,923 He's our nightmare. 863 01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,366 He'll be down there for years. 864 01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:50,767 I wish I could turn the clock back. 865 01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,846 Make the bad stuff unhappen. 866 01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:58,406 Like in that poem by Alan Gillis. 867 01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:05,003 "They say that for years Belfast was backwards 868 01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,926 "and it's great now to see some progress. 869 01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,520 "So I guess we can look forward to taking boxes 870 01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,809 "from the earth. I guess that ambulances 871 01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:15,968 "will leave the dying back amidsth the rubble 872 01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:20,568 "to be explosively healed. Given time, 873 01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,010 "one hundred thousand particles of glass 874 01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:27,044 "will create impossible patterns in the air 875 01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:29,242 "before coalescing into the clarity 876 01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:33,928 "of a window. Through which, a reassembled head 877 01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:38,050 "will look out and admire the shy young man 878 01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:41,124 "taking his bomb from the building and driving home." 879 01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:52,731 But as well as imagining rewinding to a better past 880 01:08:53,440 --> 01:08:56,171 we can imagine a better future, can't we? 881 01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:58,608 A time without bigotry. 882 01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:00,211 I can. 883 01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:02,611 Imagine 884 01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,811 some October morning in the future 885 01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:07,644 when the walls are down 886 01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:10,884 and the creature from the black lagoon has gone. 887 01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:14,443 Imagine that there's only one bigot left. 888 01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:16,165 He's an old man. 889 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:18,684 And then he dies. 890 01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:21,362 Imagine his funeral. 891 01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:54,810 (DEAD BIGOT) I didn't know it would feel so good, 892 01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:56,570 this wooden overcoat. 893 01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:00,806 I didn't know you'd hold me high up on your shoulder blades. 894 01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,721 The crowds are like an ocean here, and I am like a boat 895 01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:09,283 sailing on a sea of love, a threnody parade. 896 01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:13,961 I must have done all right in life, these last one hundred years, 897 01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:18,648 I must have - what's the word? - inspired or reconciled those things, 898 01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,566 love, job, mates and church, 899 01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:25,361 beyond what disappears, or else you'd stay at home today 900 01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:27,522 and not come all attired. 901 01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:32,887 But hold on, what's that on that flag? 902 01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,003 "Thank God he's dead"? 903 01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:38,369 Thank God he's dead! 904 01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:43,321 Hey, what? 905 01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,610 "The only bigot left alive has finally gone and died"? 906 01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:48,648 Wait. What? No. 907 01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:51,565 You're not here to watch me start to rot! 908 01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:56,323 Tell me, please God tell me that your eyes are open wide 909 01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,165 to stop the grief, not start the world again 910 01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:02,403 now that my years have ended, half forgotten, 911 01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:05,040 and the air is brisk and clear. 912 01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:07,168 Why can't you start to sing a hymn? 913 01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,363 And now, with me, abide. 914 01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:21,124 I didn't know it would feel so bad, this wooden overcoat. 915 01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:23,601 I didn't know you'd hold me shoulder high 916 01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,610 and try to make a mockery of all I learnt by rote 917 01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,326 and didn't fake the beauty of my creed 918 01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:32,569 that we are right and they are not. 919 01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:37,925 How could we not be right? 920 01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:41,203 My mother cried for all those things. 921 01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:45,365 Our language, flag and songs are like her tears, 922 01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:50,526 her years, her fears, so intimate accrued, imbued. 923 01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:55,441 the thing in me that sings, that yells, still now, in death, 924 01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:58,809 above the other side's shrill jeers. 925 01:11:59,920 --> 01:12:02,764 I wish I could still breathe and smell the whiskey 926 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:05,326 on the breath of those I stood up close to 927 01:12:05,440 --> 01:12:07,363 but a thousand miles away. 928 01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:11,331 I looked into their eyes and all I saw was fading death 929 01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:15,240 of me and mine, of God and wine, 930 01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,891 and all that we purveyed. 931 01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,321 And so I knew, their eyes told me, 932 01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:26,689 the engine of my days, a Braveheart locomotive 933 01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,001 that set our pulses racing, 934 01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:32,920 that showed that blood and soil are never self-effacing, 935 01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:37,768 that anger, power and loyalty are the duty of our days. 936 01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:40,969 So, bury me today 937 01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:45,684 and, with me, what kept us apart. 938 01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,400 And sing your song of harmony 939 01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,206 for all you like, and from the heart. 940 01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:55,406 I was the Belfast you all knew, 941 01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:58,246 and with me that's now dying 942 01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,563 something new is born today. 943 01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:03,405 A transgression. 944 01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:05,201 A trying- 945 01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:08,123 (RUBY MURRAY) ♪ Good luck, ♪ 946 01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:10,368 ♪ good health, ♪ 947 01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:14,082 ♪ God bless you ♪ 948 01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:22,121 ♪ And guide you on your way ♪ 949 01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,049 (MICHAEL HOLLIDAY) ♪ Good luck, ♪ 950 01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,447 ♪ Good health, ♪ 951 01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:49,567 ♪ God bless you and keep you ♪ 952 01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:56,530 (RUBY MURRAY) ♪ And keep me still in your heart ♪ 953 01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:16,523 (MURRAY AND HOLLIDAY DUET) ♪ Good luck, ♪ 954 01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,723 ♪ Good health, ♪ 955 01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:22,846 ♪ God bless you ♪ 956 01:14:23,440 --> 01:14:30,847 ♪ And guide you on your way ♪ 957 01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:39,726 (HOLLIDAY) ♪ No matter where you wander ♪ 958 01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:48,931 (MURRAY) ♪ As long as we're apart ♪ 959 01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:51,210 (DUET) ♪ Good luck, ♪ 960 01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:53,762 ♪ good health, ♪ 961 01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:59,683 ♪ God bless you and keep you ♪ 962 01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:05,200 ♪ And keep me still in your heart ♪ 963 01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:28,645 (COUSINS) I hope I'll be there, carrying the coffin. 964 01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:31,206 (BELFAST) And, you know, 965 01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:33,368 the bigot's also me. 966 01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:35,968 Have you time for one last story? 967 01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:37,241 A true story. 968 01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:38,521 (COUSINS) Of course. 969 01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:42,083 (BELFAST) It happened on Tuesday, two days ago. 970 01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:45,124 It's a tiny story. 971 01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:48,131 A zoom-in on this place. 972 01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:54,081 But it tells me more about Belfast than winding back or looking forward. 973 01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:57,005 It happened here. 974 01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,002 At half past three. 975 01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:04,961 A woman, Betty, was waiting for a bus. 976 01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:18,082 It arrived and she got on. 977 01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:27,248 But she'd left her shopping behind. 978 01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:30,210 (VAN MORRISON) ♪ If it matters ♪ 979 01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:33,683 ♪ how you do it ♪ 980 01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:38,201 ♪ And how you do it ♪ 981 01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,681 ♪ is your thing ♪ 982 01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:45,128 ♪ If it matters ♪ 983 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:49,043 ♪ which way you go ♪ 984 01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:53,807 ♪ That's your way to go ♪ 985 01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,042 ♪ And if you get it like that ♪ 986 01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:00,361 (BELFAST) But then... 987 01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:06,603 Oh, Mister. Mister, I've left my shopping behind me! 988 01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,926 ♪ 'Cause you get it like that when you want to ♪ 989 01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:15,202 ♪ be that way ♪ 990 01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:18,328 ♪ When you wanna be that way ♪ 991 01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,049 This wee woman left her shopping back at the bus stop. 992 01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:24,647 Do any of you's mind if we drive back and get it? 993 01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:39,009 ♪ It's all right ♪ 994 01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:53,290 ♪ It's all right ♪ 995 01:17:57,160 --> 01:18:00,926 ♪ Now what you try to do to me ♪ 996 01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,168 ♪ Out there a-walking doesn't matter, baby ♪ 997 01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,202 ♪ Ain't no question, ♪ 998 01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,242 ♪ no suggestion ♪ 999 01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:21,208 ♪ Nothing in my mind that can't be ♪ 1000 01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:25,283 ♪ Shut out when I want it to be ♪ 1001 01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:29,801 ♪ Nothing in yours that can't be kept in ♪ 1002 01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:35,125 ♪ When you open it up and use it ♪ 1003 01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:43,368 ♪ And nothing you can't let out ♪ 1004 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:49,407 ♪ If it's gotta be let out, just let it out ♪ 1005 01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:52,644 ♪ And don't worry which way it goes ♪ 1006 01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:07,161 ♪ It's all right ♪ 1007 01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:21,290 ♪ It's all right ♪ 1008 01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:26,370 ♪ Now how can I tell you that I love you? ♪ 1009 01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:34,009 ♪ How can I say so many words and so many syllables ♪ 1010 01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:38,247 ♪ In such a short space of time as this? ♪ 1011 01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,681 ♪ Just turn it on and soak it in ♪ 1012 01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,731 ♪ And let it run off the walls ♪ 1013 01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:51,203 ♪ And let it down, with you ♪ 1014 01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:53,005 ♪ Keep it ♪ 1015 01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,082 ♪ and don't lose it ♪ 1016 01:19:57,800 --> 01:19:59,723 ♪ or confuse it ♪ 1017 01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:04,289 ♪ It's just right there laying open ♪ 1018 01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:08,167 ♪ Completely open for everybody to see ♪ 1019 01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:15,803 (CHOIR) ♪ It's all right ♪ 1020 01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:17,649 (MORRISON) ♪ You got it ♪ 1021 01:20:28,440 --> 01:20:32,764 ♪ It's all right X 1022 01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:45,687 (BELFAST) Multiply that story by a thousand 1023 01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:47,250 and you've got Belfast. 1024 01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:48,881 Me. 1025 01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:52,967 You can see yourself in me, can't you? 1026 01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:55,727 And in Rosie and Maud? 1027 01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:58,602 And the guy lying on the steps? 1028 01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:01,282 And the last bigot? 1029 01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:06,004 Look at my face. 1030 01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:07,969 It's your face. 1031 01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,726 We all have our icebergs. 1032 01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:14,842 (COUSINS) And with that, she was gone. 1033 01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:20,011 I looked for her, but couldn't find her. 1034 01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:24,447 Maybe she ran out of stories. 1035 01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:28,804 I asked around. 1036 01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:31,566 One old man said he'd seen her recently. 1037 01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:40,803 But he couldn't mind where. 1038 01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:46,566 “You know she went blind,” he said. 1039 01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:48,410 “Blind?” I said. 1040 01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:50,962 “Well almost,” he said. 1041 01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:55,245 "It happened years ago, in the 1950s. 1042 01:21:55,520 --> 01:21:57,966 "She could only see blurs. 1043 01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:00,401 "But what blurs!" 1043 01:22:01,305 --> 01:22:07,633 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from OpenSubtitles.org