Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Since I didn’t spend my childhood in the USA, I didn’t have the opportunity to watch the TV show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” presented by Fred Rogers, a Presbyterian minister who was known for his kindness, especially with children. The show aired for 31 seasons and is the subject of the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a title that alludes to the song sung by Fred Rogers at the beginning of each episode. The documentary features interviews with Fred Rogers from the beginning of his career until a few years before his death in 2003, in addition to interviews with friends and co-workers, as well as with viewers who were influenced by the Mr. Rogers as children. It’s refreshing to watch a movie like this, telling the story of someone genuinely good-hearted and caring about their neighbors, especially nowadays.
RBG
Friday night in Times Square, and a packed showing at the movies. If you had asked someone on the street what movie was playing, the most common guess probably would have been some Marvel or Star Wars movie. To everyone’s surprise, however, the correct answer is RGB, a documentary about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At age 85, Ruth Bader Ginsburg lives a curious phenomenon: she is worshiped by millions of young people. It is possible to buy numerous items her face or her quotes, not to mention the more drastic ones that get tattoos in her honor. This is because she is the most important liberal voice in the Supreme Court in recent years. Her opinions, often diverging from the conservative majority, are read with enthusiasm by many, so much so that she is known as “the dissenter”. No wonder, therefore, that she is the subject of both this documentary and the film On The Basis of Sex (with Felicity Jones), which will be released later this year. RGB tells Justice Ginsburg’s life story, from her days as an attorney to the present day, at the gym, doing physical exercises that would impress many sedentary people. And, with the current U.S. Supreme Court situation, everyone hopes that she will remain healthy for many, many years to come.
Three Identical Strangers
Imagine finding out, by chance, at age 19, that you have two identical brothers and that they were separated at birth! This is what happened to Eddy Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, theme of the documentary Three Identical Strangers. It may seem like a story with a happy ending, as the brothers eventually met and could try to make up for lost time. In fact, however, this is just the beginning of a more fantastic, absurd and dangerous story, as the families try to find out why the adoption agency did not inform them that the babies were actually triplets – and the answers are astounding. This is the kind of film that, the less you know going in, the better. And it is also the living proof that reality can be crazier than any fiction and that conspiracy theories have a reason to exist.
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