And
love your
life,» Krieps explains in the
clip, while co-star Leslie Manville adds, «It's a film
about human condition and how we all struggle to have something that makes us feel real and have purpose.»
A ten - minute
clip (or shorter) from a film like The Story of the Weeping Camel from Mongolia might suffice to create a powerful discussion prompt on geography and language, on different perspectives
about material luxuries, survival, family, how
loved ones are cared for, being kind and considerate, what different
living environments look like and how they are built, and how kids play or entertain themselves in different settings.
Adams's
life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she
loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to
clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo
about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who
lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.