“I just don’t know if he’s for real,” says journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) early in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, after a bewildering first interview with Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks).
It’s a question that’s surely come up in the minds of anyone who once loved Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, but has since grown up enough to realize how rare his brand of goodness truly is: Can someone truly be this wise and patient and pure?
But it’s one Beautiful Day doesn’t actually have much interest in answering. Instead, the film turns its focus to Lloyd, as a way of examining what Mister Rogers represents, and why we need him so badly in the first place. The result is a touching tribute to a singular man, and a gentle reminder that it’s up to us now to apply the lessons he left us to the rest of our world. Read more…
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