The highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time, featuring an unusual children's TV producer, Fred Rogers. The program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" he self-edited and hosted has been broadcast live from the 1960s to the new century (the number of years is second only to "Sesame Street"), with a total of more than 900 episodes per half hour. . But the documentary is less about the show than about Rogers.
The film revolves around several questions: What is it about Rogers that makes kids love him and his show? Is the image of Rogers a modest gentleman a human design or a human nature? How does Rogers see himself? What do you think of the values delivered by Rogers?
The answers I found are as follows: 1. Rogers' experience in a postgraduate course in child development at the University of Pittsburgh enables him to ask, think, present, answer, and handle problems from a child's perspective, so that he can communicate effectively with children. communicate. 2. Rogers is always a gentle and kind person full of positive energy on the screen. Many people think that he is pretending, but almost all the people interviewed said that he is the same in life. Of course, this does not rule out that he has also forged his own character in his 30-year screen career. 3. As a mortal, Rogers also has emotions, of course, but his way of dealing with it is to express it through his hobbies (piano swimming) and through the dolls he controls (including a little tiger and a king). He will also be confused and introspective, and even ask his wife if he is a sheep or a goat before he dies. 4. This is the most acute question, but the film has passed it in a hurry. The main purpose of the Rogers program is to tell every child to "be yourself". Although this is still a very mainstream value, when you enter the real world from the fairy tale world, when you grow up, you will find that just being yourself is not enough. Of course, this is a show for preschoolers after all, so it doesn't seem to be too demanding.
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