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Images used in the film's backstory


When the child lobotomies are being discussed, there is a photograph that is now widely circulated, but is a genuine photograph of a child transorbital lobotomy - it's from a collection of Walter Freedman's notes (Freeman was an infamous lobotomist). The subject is a boy named Howard Dully, who was only 13 at the time of this process. I hope the props people asked for permission to use that image, because Howard Dully is alive and well - or as well can be after a life scarred by a horrific and unnecessary medical procedure.

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