WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR MOVIE REVIEW - Best documentary of the year?

[Quixote1818]

Love the comments about him being Batman and how even as a superhero you live long enough to be a villain, referring to how Fox News attacked him suggesting he ruined a generation of children.

[MuseRider]

1. I am afraid to go see it,

I will bawl through the entire thing.

I babysat kids when I was in high school and would go over right after school let out. It was the beginning of Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, they were very new. I miss the years after I stopped doing that and having my own kids but once I had them I put those shows on because I thought they were great for kids to be entertained and educated a bit as well. Mr. Rogers? There was only one other person in the TV bis that I would ever put in a category with him and that was Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, a show for moms mostly. It was kindness, everything was organized around kindness.

I loved Mr. Rogers. I will cry all the way through. I asked my husband if he had the time this week to go see it and I started to cry when I asked. Getting old and emotionally labile I guess Oh well. He was an amazing person and I do want to know more.

Oops, I forgot to thank you for that link.

[mcp37]

2. Don't be afraid...

I saw it this past Saturday and it was wonderful. Tears of joy, people singing along with his songs (quietly but you could still hear it), laughs. We all stayed until the end of the credits and there was a big round of applause.

[MuseRider]

4. Sounds wonderful, I just hate to cry in public!

One of his son's lives, or used to live near me. I have never met him, I have heard he is a veterinarian but I am not certain about that either. I have always hoped to meet him at one point but it has never happened.

[avebury]

3. While Won't You Be My Neighbor is interesting, RBG is a far

superior documentary. I loved RBG and came out of it thinking that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an incredible woman and wanting to know more about her. There is a movie coming out later this year about RBG's early years as a lawyer.

It is too bad that Fred Rogers died 15 years ago. I would have been curious to have know what he would have thought about the way the US is going now. He was a life long conservative Republican whose show, literally, was his church (Presbyterian minister). The PBS Channel was created under LBJ with the Rethugs trying for many many years to defund PBS.