“It's a playful tale of the fiction on screen and the fictions in our heads – and it's a bamboozler.”
“Off it, he can be a brilliant bamboozler, tying interviewers in knots with a series of diversions and wild extrapolations.”
“With time, this famous bamboozler has become a literary character in his own right, as have members of his family, whether directly represented or thinly veiled.”
bamboozlement
The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.