A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

“We are trying to give the world positive ways of dealing with their feelings,” says Tom Hanks (as Fred Rogers) in the movie, as well as in the trailer. These words can be the motto of civilisation, which is perpetual discovery of better ways to help individuals channel their feelings into creative, positive-sum pursuits.

In the movie, Fred Rogers is ever present. Given you cannot be somewhere else, you might as well make the most of it and be where you are. This is a nontrivial act to come to terms to and execute.

Matthew Rhys (here, portraying Lloyd Vogel) affirms himself as an everyman leading man.