Won't You Be My Neighbor?

An amazing documentary about a person I knew nothing about at first, but now I think that he was amazing. Fred Rogers was able to make children equal partners, and in every decade of its existence his show was perhaps the perfect, functional counterpart of mass entertainment offered to children by other stations. Rogers, as an empathetic psychologist and philosopher who certainly did not negate the spiritual in himself, was able to convey not only basic moral values to children through various metaphors, but also events like the Bobby Kennedy murder, the Vietnam War, racial segregation, and the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which most people could not talk about to children. His uniqueness stood out the more his opponents tried to reveal what he was “really like." No one could understand that Rogers really was like that. I recommend this engaging and superbly crafted documentary to everyone who wants to get to know an incredible person. (28/12/2020)