But "Scrotal Recall" is constructed, cleverly, so that its crassest character moves slowly inward.
It is constructed cleverly; the runners are very fragile near where they root so pull too hard and they break off leaving the roots and the rest of the plant in the ground and you holding but one of the many runners.
This is not a new or especially interesting dramatic thesis, and not even Moverman's ability to find nuance in the cracks of a familiar story can quite offset the sense that we are watching an artificial construct, a cleverly rigged parlor game that fancies itself a moral lament.
And the whole turns out to be less than the sum of its elegantly constructed and cleverly uncategorizable parts.
Leveraging settings where we have, or can cleverly construct, multiple instances of a network, the comparative approach makes previously untested theories testable.
Russell and Mumolo cleverly construct the story of Joy's disoriented introduction to the world of TV shopping so that the audience and the heroine are equally unsure at first as to what exactly is going on.
Of course, it is deliberately unreal, as unreal as it may well have felt to Joy at the time, and Russell and Mumolo cleverly construct the story of Joy's disoriented introduction to the world of TV shopping so that the audience and the heroine are equally unsure at first as to quite what is going on.
(I commission jailhouse artists to cleverly construct my concepts into pornified cartoon cards, but sometimes our efforts go unappreciated, as in this case. I never heard from her again).
It's cleverly constructed to complement the subject matter.
This is a clever, and cleverly constructed, show.
The songs are still sullen, smart and cleverly constructed.
