• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Nah, Marla was real. PM members physically brought her to Jack at the end. Even PM wouldn’t be able to pull off bringing an alter ego to Jack, she must be real.

    Also, in the film the thrift store cashier LOOKS at Marla during the conversation.

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      She’s probably real in the novel as well, but I don’t think you can definitively say it’s an impossible interpretation in either.

      It’s a bit more clear in the novel for a few reasons but you can still wave away a lot of the points against it simply by pointing to how extremely unreliable the Narrator is.