barry levinson be a very clever director ( and writer ) . he obviously gather a lot of information and insight on the pressure cooker know a northern ireland . he delight in the borough eccentricity and predilection . and and he endow his main character with appropriate peculiarity . the unfolding of event be true to tradition of the region humor and the indigenous cast know their character well and eat and breathe the area history . but and we do not . nor be we ever bring into it . therefore the entire exercise seem contrive and self important . it remind me of be at a spouse company party and hearing people reference people and project that you know and understand nothing about yet you do not have the option of leave the party . it be a series of inside joke but we and the american audience and be stick on the outside .