Brilliant ending. This also highlights how connected Kenneth Branagh feels to his hometown of Belfast despite leaving at a young age. It’s like he said in an interview you can’t take Belfast out of the boy.
arguably this ending MIGHT have more balanced the movie & added a more artistic end but as a jamaican teenager made to leave the only home he'd ever known because of similar "troubles" the final ending chosen truly resonated leaving me still emotional & reflective a day later! in an interview with colbert Branagh said he was told by a nigerian & an iranian that "this was their story" & he might just as well have been talking about me & my family. love you ma; RIP dada!; ty & god bless sir branagh !
"Not the promised land,mind you. Never was, never will be. But that'll do for us" I just recently came back from a trip to Ireland, and spent a few days in Belfast. Besides being one of Europe's most criminally underrated cities, this is a city that has a lot of wasted potential, all while trying to make a brighter future of itself. Yet the locals were humble and kind, and they are able to be happy with very little. That quote sums up Belfast really well.
What an emotional end that would have been, A CASE OF CONFIRMING.... HOME IS WHERE YOUR HEART ORIGINATES. NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO IN LIFE. I took Kens family to heart (as did everyone who watched it) and |I would love for there to be a sequel. I want to know what happened when they left Ireland. Thanks for the wonderful movie Ken, you touched our hearts
Personally, I disagree. I was sobbing for some of the scenes in the movie, but this didn't spark a single tear. It just felt too meta and on-the-nose for my liking.
I think I liked this ending better. The part where adult Buddy sees pop and granny and he starts walking with his family, put tears in my eyes. I now only live in the next neighborhood over from the neighborhood I grew up in, yet when I visit my old street in the neighborhood I grew up in, I still feel nothing but nostalgia and mixed emotions, we left my old neighborhood under a painful and frustrating situation, so it still hurts when going back or talking about it, yet there are still so many wonderful memories. I can only imagine what Mr. Branagh or anyone leaving Belfast or any part of Northern Ireland must’ve felt leaving during the troubles.
Love this ending. Told more from Branagh's standpoint than the grandmothers. A little long but 30-60 seconds of it could easily have been edited out. And with any soundtrack music added, it would have been a great final moment. They seem to make Branagh a little younger looking...I wonder how many years were meant to have passed...30?...40?....50? Who was the older lady he met on the sidewalk? I had the sound turned low when watching it at work. The only thing maybe not realistic is him appearing to have never come back to Belfast prior to this.
dont get it why this didnt go to the movie, much better than the original ending !!! the silence scenes in the ending is just beautiful ! and pure poetry !
I walked into the village my mum grew up in when I was 16 and the old woman behind the shop counter knew excactly who I was. We had never met before but my mum delivered the papers as a child n grew up there n seemingly I was her double and there was no mistaking who my mum was. Crazy but they know x
