December 28, 2008

Circling back.


Writer-director Fatih Akin is only 34, but he has the ruefulness and insight of someone 20 or 30 years older. That's a great gift, to know things without having to learn them.
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
reviewing The Edge of Heaven.
With a comment like this I have to recognize that there is some element of wisdom that comes as a gift to certain people. "Wise beyond their years," the expression goes.

I've known children who were born as older people.

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