MOVIE REVIEW: “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Delivers Feel-Good Propaganda for Our Trumpian Age

Mr. Rogers (Tom Hanks), champion shoe-tosser.

Compassion. Empathy. Forgiveness. Values necessary for a just, egalitarian society, one, sadly, that has escaped us for centuries, if not millennia. As seldom as societies embrace these values, they remain universally aspirational. As a way of living and perhaps being, it might be unassailable, but in thematic and subtextual form in narrative fiction or film, a forceful emphasis on…