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What Belfast Is Famous For
12 years now since the first IRA ceasefire and Northen Ireland seems to have as much trouble with its image as ever. Myself and the girlfriend watched Mind Hunters last night. I'm no good at classifying films into genres but I'd describe it as a low-brow, popcorn munching psychological thriller. It should interest the sort of folk who watch CSI.
The main reason I'm commenting on it is a line near the start, when the characters, FBI agents on a training exercise to test their psychological profiling abilities, arrive on a purpose-built navy training facility. One of the agents, in an English accent, declares "It's like a cross between Beirut and Belfast."
Follow up:
As proud as I was to hear any reference to Norn Iron in a Hollywood movie, it seems like it will be some time before we can shake the image of a conflict-torn warzone. I'm sure that'll help our tourism no end.
The movie itself, while certainly far from deep and meaningful, would is pretty good as long as you're not expecting anything to intellectually challenging. It's definitely one for entertainment rather than intellectual discourse - but we all need a bit of entertaining once in a while.