unconditionalcaring Review of A Cooler Climate

A Cooler Climate (1999 TV Movie)

surviving the challenges of money and family

[17 November 2005]

This movie portrays people dealing with the barriers to unconditional caring created by norms of behavior involving money and family. The train operated with money gets Iris to her housekeeping job where she is able to sort out her money problems and family problems through caring about the people around her in the chance meetings she has with a person she met on the beach who turns out to be the bookstore owner, with meeting and conversing with the people she is giving housekeeping conditional caring which enables her to reconcile her relationship with a person that she was close to and had known previously. It is kind of sad how insecurity about money creates insecurity of relationships with people and how only with security involving money is she able to strengthen and stabilize her relationships with people. She has a solid, warm caring attitude towards people which seems to draw them to her.