
Vice Guide to Belfast
Gerry and Alistair lead a Vice camera crew through Belfast's peace lines and former battlegrounds, and both men are ex-paramilitaries who once fought on opposite sides of the Troubles. One comes from the Protestant loyalist tradition, the other from the Catholic republican side, and the film uses their contrasting histories to walk through neighborhoods still marked by murals, flags, and gates that separate one community's streets from another's. They talk about what recruited them as teenagers, what they did during the conflict, and what daily life looks like now that the paramilitary structures they belonged to have mostly gone quiet. The Vice presenter pushes them on whether the peace process actually resolved anything or just paused it, and their answers do not always agree. There is no narrator smoothing over the contradictions; the two guides argue with each other in the same shots where they are supposed to be showing off their city, and that friction is the film's real subject.