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The Watch Fast & Furious 6 Onlinepervasive sentiment of 2018 is that we all live in a never-ending hell. Your hell might be different than someone else's, but each of us feels trapped in a ceaseless cycle of hurt, hate, and dishonesty.

So here is a genuine suggestion -- a temporary antidote to our collective hellscape. This weekend, reallocate the time you'd spend crafting the perfect angry tweet or outraged online clapback. Instead, go see Won't You Be My Neighbor, the deeply affecting new documentary on the legacy and philosophies of Fred Rogers.

Like me, you might've never even seen Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the kids show he created and hosted from 1968 to 2001. You don't know who Mister Rogers is, outside the cultural parody. You're thinking, What in the hell does a cardigan-wearing after school special like Mr. Rogers have to do with anything? Can we even afford niceties and warm-fuzzies in a world seemingly on the brink of collapse?

But at the risk of sounding too sincere for our times: let yourself be healed. Go see Won't You Be My Neighbor like your life and humanity at large depended on it.

Because, in a sense, we do.

Spectacularly crafted by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville, Won't You Be My Neighborimmerses you in the ethos of Fred Rogers. A former preacher, he turned to television in the '50s, seeing it as a tool to spread his ideals to the masses, specifically children.

Using a cast of puppets, characters, and the concept of a universal community, Mister Rogers' Neighborhooddared to address things like racial segregation, JFK's assassination, death, war, and fascism (to name a few). His influential radicalism always served two core beliefs: 1) Children's feelings matter, and 2) The entirety of our world comes down to love, or a lack of it.

I walked into this film arms crossed and impatient. I proceeded to openly weep on three separate occasions during its compact 90 minute runtime -- not out of sadness, but a sense of pure, unadulterated love and joy. Even now as I write this, returning to that mental space, I'm misty-eyed. Because it's a sensation that's felt as dead and gone as childhood innocence.

But this documentary is a reawakening of the humanity that lies dormant and forgotten inside each and every one of us -- a worldview that was revolutionary in the '70s, and downright extinct in 2018.

Like Mister Rogers' show, the documentary is unpretentious. It offers no finite solutions. The sentiments can (on paper) sound comically simple, overly pious, outdated, self-explanatory, cliche. Yet in 2018, there is no act more subversive than giving yourself over to an unabashedly sincere ode to common human goodness.

Won't You Be My Neighbor is a reminder of something we've lost sight of in the cacophony of noise that is the internet age. When we talk about our beliefs, our policies, the future, the way the world should be, what we're really talking about is kids. I know. Seems obvious. So why, then, amidst all the idealogical grandstanding that defines life and politics today is no one really addressing the people we're supposedly fighting for?

What good is all the yelling, if we continue to fail and neglect the most important demographic of all? Who will be their advocate, during a time when kids need to stand up for their own right to not be shot in school, because none of the adults care enough to do it for them -- or even with them?

Now more than ever, it feels as though we live in an era run and populated entirely by broken childhood egos in grown up bodies (I count myself among them). Fred Rogers was a man who understood not only the dangers of neglecting children, but the limitless potential and social benefit of telling every single one of them, "You matter. I love you the way you are. It's OK to be scared or sad. And we will protect you."

After watching Won't You Be My Neighbor,I kept wondering whether life might feel less like hell if we just acted with more kindness, attention, and acceptance toward the broken children clearly stuck in us all. Maybe, if we figure out how to do ourselves that courtesy, we'll learn how to do it for each other.

Fred Rogers didn't save the world. Likewise, seeing Won't You Be My Neighborwon't make this world any easier to live in once you leave the theater. But it's a needed reminder that we should see other people as neighbors in a global community, not fellow prisoners and perpetrators of you own personal hellscape.

Won't You Be My Neighbor dares to make its audience feel seen and heard and loved. Whether or not that changes us depends on accepting the film's underlying invitation -- and our willingness to believe we deserve it.