Dublin is keen on portraying itself in a certain way, as a tourist-friendly city, and part of that means putting across ideas of places you must visit, like the Guinness factory and Trinity College – to see the Book of Kells.
It reminds me how vulnerable these young people are to strong ideas put across by individuals who understand the power of language and how to use it to manipulate regardless of the consequence to others.
It's a heartfelt, modest and well staged film about the Kennedy assassination, lacking the voltage of JFK, Oliver Stone's great conspiracy opera, certainly, but it has a valid idea to put across: namely, that what emerges in the disaster is not a network of plots, but a web of shame and fear just visible in the miasma of sadness.
The thinking was that once very basic ideas had been put across, you could slowly instruct them more fully in the particulars of the faith.
Pop songs are the perfect medium for putting across political ideas in a pithy, humorous way, but when's the last time you heard anyone do that?
Like the runners at Tate Britain, the idea is lightly put across: an ordinary experience made surprising.
The idea is to put across that it's not a big deal provided he stops.
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Performing together with nothing more than their own guitars for accompaniment, Veloso and Gil, both 73, sang, strummed, picked and thumped their way through two hours of music — some old, some new, all of it using gorgeous melodies and propulsive rhythms to put across profound ideas.
