1. Someone above mentioned the conversation scene between Hal and his father towards the beginning. But note, that entire scene is in dialogue... we never have a narrator saying, "Hal went to go see a conversationalist one day..." By the end it's pretty obvious that that scene IS the movie, and that the movie isn't based on anything that really happened, which changes how we understand JOI (i.e., he's not crazy). For example, when Hal thinks about the movie and the child actor (who he knew) when he's watching JOI's films, he never connects it to any incident in his own life.
2. Is MP/JvD actually hideously and improbably deformed? We only ever get that from Molly Notkin, but Molly Notkin either doesn't know, or lies about, MP's real name, her father's name, where in Kentucky she's from, and a bunch of other things. The reaction of the doctor who saw under her veil after her suicide attempt suggests to me that she's still beautiful.
3. In my copy of the book there's a section divider hanging off the corner of the last page. What does that mean?
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