The background music of the slideshow of John Doe 's notebook was a remix of `` Closer '' by Nine Inch Nails .
`` Cooper recognized the amount of money used to make John Doe 's notebooks ( created by Clive Piercy and John Sabel ) , and used the sequence to display them in a slideshow set to Nine Inch Nails ' `` '' Closer '' '' . ''
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