Students would propose contradictory psychoanalytic readings, and they all sounded good, but it was just an ingenuity contest.
The movie "is by turns silly, maudlin and noisy, with just enough ingenuity to make you wish it were better," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in November.
What links everything in his home, he said, is resourcefulness: not just design ingenuity, but an awareness of conserving limited natural resources.
Here, at last, Zambra's authorial self-consciousness, his reflections on the perils and pleasures of fiction-making, finds a theme that gives it moral gravity and not just formal ingenuity.
That 100 photographs, all the same size, all square, all black and white, manage pretty well to skirt repetitiveness is a testament not just to ingenuity but also to the power of place in landscape photography.
Based on a book by former banker Michael Lewis, it illustrates not just the ingenuity of a few mavericks, but the stupidity, complacency and amorality of the financial and policy elite.
Directed by Peter Ramsey and written by David Lindsay-Abaire (and based on a story by William Joyce), "Rise of the Guardians," like so much animated entertainment these days, is by turns silly, maudlin and noisy, with just enough ingenuity to make you wish it were better.
Now that really is the stuff not just of ingenuity and mathematics, but of conjuring shows and, yes, of decidedly magic cubes.
"That's just the ingenuity of gamers and people in general, isn't it?
