left to the imagination

Enough is left to the imagination to compel people to buy a ticket.

But the nature of what happened in her past life, though obvious in the fact that she fled it, is left to the imagination.

“I remember listening to it in the dark, Everything was left to the imagination. It was just sound. I think of the sounds first and then the images.”

But they can feel a little incidental to some key scenes, with transmogrifications and body swaps largely left to the imagination.

In transposing the novel to television, the story also took an unexpected turn, a plot twist that is not in the novel but that Ferrante signed off on, De Angelis said: She was well aware that moving from the pages to the screen “was an occasion to express elements that were only suggested and left to the imagination in the novel,” while on the screen, “the imagination becomes image,” offering the possibility of “more radical choices.”