To make its point, it shows how people react when guessing becomes a part of another area of life.
But when the time comes for the movie to make its point, it falls back on creaky plot twists and puffed-up, over-earnest speeches.
(It was also a canny fight against being confined to black and white illustrations – to make its point, it had to be printed in colour).
And does it make its point?
"Mayday" is a run-of-the-mill television movie, but it does make its point: a lot of people in positions of authority these days are very bad guys.
Bob McCauley, a member of the Boston Protest Group, said it wanted to make its point legally.
This is what the Occupy movement found when it looked for a location to make its point in the City of London.
The script features just enough Lin-words to make its point, and the best refrain of all: "It's like applying to Stanford!/And ending up at Harvard!" Lindeed.
It even resorts to using upper case occasionally to make its point, demanding "a true PROFESSIONALIZATION both at the scientific and managerial level".
It describes magical rhetoric, invoking another, equally magical rhetoric to make its point.
But Linn recognized that federal law gives a union license to use intemperate, abusive, or insulting language without fear of restraint or penalty if it believes such rhetoric to be an effective means to make its point.
