A last line that speaks a sweetly sad truth

Regarding my review below of the Coen brothers’ film “True Grit,” one thing that I particularly liked about the adaptation is the brothers’ inclusion of one of author Charles Portis’ better, if painfully aware, lines. It’s the last line of the film, apparently the next-to-last line of the novel.

Mattie Ross (Elizabeth Marvel as the older Mattie) delivers it, bemoaning — as much as she is capable of bemoaning anything — the fact that she’d waited too long to reunite with her old friend.

“Time just gets away from us,” she says.

Speaking as someone who is now buying senior-age movie tickets, I say amen to that sentiment, brother.