Probably Unanswerable Questions
Dog’s survival; phone confidant; whole-film dream; hypothetical casting consequences
In the discussion (8)
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- The dog is tentatively linked with White Dog, and its survival is imagined rather than established; Sam’s failure to swim also raises a question.
- Whether Sam was also the man with Jake’s girlfriend is briefly wondered and considered unlikely.
- Gloria’s payphone confidant is unidentified; an affair is presumed as a possible motive but remains speculative.
- Jake’s physical suitability for adult performance is wondered about because his initial characterization seems inconsistent with his comfort there.
- A hypothetical accidental casting of underage Traci Lords raises questions about removing footage or withdrawing tapes; the discussion distinguishes ordinary acting from explicit scenes and remains speculative.
- The most humiliating sexual position to discover a partner in becomes a crude hypothetical, with doggy style proposed and a Longlegs joke added.
- The whole story might be Jake’s claustrophobic fantasy: the spinning kiss, reservoir unreality and restored job suggest either an opening-set episode or acting-class trauma as a starting point.
- An imagined De Palma interview confirming the dream theory is explicitly not a real statement he made.