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As per, but a vast amount of it is very directly autobiographical. and where it isn't, i think there's a sort of emotional truthfulness about what the film embraces, which is that at nine—years—old, when the world for this young lad literally turns upside down, where the ground is taken from beneath his feet, the pavements on which we stood 20 minutes previously are lifted up by a rioting mob, and a few hours later, the population's scared and back in their houses, spills out, lifts those same paving stones and suddenly, there's a barricade at either end of the street. so there was a quali...

A film called belfast. uh-huh. how autobiographical a film is it? well, erm, it's seen through the eyes of nine—year—old buddy. it's seen at 50 years distance from me. so, inevitably, not everything happened absolutely as per but a vast amount of it is very directly autobiographical and where it isn't, i think there's a sort of emotional truthfulness about what the film embraces which is, that at nine—years—old, when the world for this young lad, literally turns upside down, where the ground is taken from beneath his feet, the pavements on which we stood 20 minutes previously are lifte...

And from the radio, and so the sense of being in a sort of tumult was very, very palpable. were you scared? most certainly scared. i mean, there's a scene at the beginning of the film which recreates the moment where it kicked off for us. and, you know, it was very alarming, really, to see ten—year—old jude hill, under this table in the back room as my brother and i were, reallyjust, unable to comprehend what was going on but we knew that stones and bricks were flying through the windows, it turned out, of neighbours, but it could easily have been ours. and, erm, it puts you in that positi...

To cope with that is part of the nature of it but a lot of it's true. even though there is humour and a sense of optimism throughout the film, i mean, this is a moment in history, 1969, where real violence erupted on the streets. i mean, the idea of the father in the film being threatened by the protestant hard men for refusing to go along with the gangs and threatening his catholic neighbours, was that something that directly happened to your father? there was a sense, you couldn't be in that part of belfast at that time, at least through my nine—year—old eyes, you couldn't be, unless the...

Of it but a lot of it's true. even though there is humour and a sense of optimism throughout the film, i mean, this is a moment in history, 1969, where real violence erupted on the streets. i mean, the idea of the father in the film being threatened by the protestant hard men for refusing to go along with the gangs and threatening his catholic neighbours, was that something that directly happened to your father? there was a sense, you couldn't be in that part of belfast at that time, at least through my nine—year—old eyes, you couldn't be, unless there was some sense of threat and the poss...