A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a Great Movie. It's Also About Pain.

In the film, Junod becomes cynical magazine writer Lloyd Vogel (played by Matthew Rhys) who was deeply wounded by his father years before and seems to take it out on his subjects. He’s asked to write a simple 400-word piece on Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) for Esquire’s “heroes” edition. Lloyd protests: Mister Rogers, a hero? He’s supposed to interview a guy “because he plays with puppets for a living?” Yes, his editor tells him. Why? Because no one else on Esquire’s list would sit down with him. Only Fred Rogers would dare talk with the fearsome journalist.
Later, Lloyd learns that Fred didn’t just agree to sit down with him: He asked for Lloyd. “He likes everybody,” someone tells Lloyd. “But he loves people like you.” Hard people. Broken people. People in pain.