He got married at 102!

I watched this TED talk by Marc Pacher about his work on an interview series called 'Living Portraits' . He decided to only interview elderly people because he thought it was interesting to see what a person says when they already know how the story turns out. How the most important party of an interview is not their youthful energy (which is what our culture feeds off of, but their life-force (that's what the title is about, this guy whose life-force, Marc says, is so powerful that he gets married at 102). He talked about creating empathy with the interviewee and yada yada yada. But what I thought was most interesting was that his main job was to convince people to allow him to ask the question that they've been waiting their whole lives for someone to ask. The answer that they have never really revealed. I thought that was facinating, that the purpose of the interviewer is not to get their questions answered but to ask the interviewee's questions for them. Anyway here's his pitcha!