In 2016 , a heavy armed North Carolina piece thrust ahead into a Washington , DC - area pizza joint , intending to enquire a wild confederacy theory that it was secretly torturing child in a cellar it did n’t really have . guess were fire and scare ensued , but no one was physically harmed . Improbably , those real - life event are now the subject of a characteristic film .
That incident come good manners of Pizzagate , a far - right net cabal hypothesis that swan a pizzeria in secret hosted a conspiracy of Satanic , possibly cannibalisticDemocratic politicians and celebrities run a kid gender trafficking ring . The eating place in question hasnever really shookfree of the aid of depraved Pizzagate believers , and the subject remains tender to this day . That opened injury , however , has since festered into the rabidly pro - Donald TrumpQAnon movement — which in itself is a kind of national horror story .
Enter Duncan , an indie repulsion - drollery cinema that take its intake from the Pizzagate incident and , more broadly , burgeoning conspiracism across the U.S. in late age . Duncan is the debut lineament of Austin , Texas - based directorJohn Valley , who antecedently directeddozens of medicine picture . He shot the flick on ashoestring budget , and the results allegedly spooked film fete organizers with its controversial subject area .
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As it rick out , Duncan is n’t really about secret pizza pie torture chambers at all , alternatively using a fabricated variation of Pizzagate as a set up distributor point to search the toxic mindset of confederacy theorizer . Local TV host and Alex Jones / InfoWars stand - in Terri Lee direct her viewers to consider that a unavowed cabal of pedophilic lounge lizard people are torturing kids in the basement of Austin ’s Tootz Pizza . ( That ’s about as specific as the claim get . ) Wannabe reporter Karen Black , freshly fired from Terri Lee ’s post for dropping a hot mic during cinematography , search to get back into her X - boss ’s full Grace by traveling to Tootz and assemble video evidence .
To do so , Black enlists Duncan Plump , the only competent member of a local paramilitary group . He reluctantly agree to handle the “ tactical side ” of the operation , infuriating another militia drawing card who believe Duncan is jockey for controller . And so off they go on a road tripper from hell in Duncan ’s windowless avant-garde .
Things go south chop-chop , in part because the program has no fortune of succeeder — much like the pizza parlor it ’s based on , there is n’t even a cellar at Tootz — but also because conspiracy theories and heavily armed activist are an inherently explosive mix . When two people with already limited capacity for clearheadedness are force into extreme context , their every pathetic conclusion drags them further into a crashing mess of their own making .
Despite the “ grindhouse Pizzagate satire ” tagline , Duncan is , first and firstly , a fiber study . That journeying into the profundity of the title character ’s mind is both pitiful and harrowing . Duncan is deeply bemused , juggling multiple notion that , while maybe lucid to the character , are understandably inappropriate to the viewer . He ’s an obsessional far - right fanatic who brandish weapon system in front of protesters and proclaims a sincere belief in lizard people ; he also seems authentically disturbed at the view of hurting anyone and decries Terri Lee as a peddler of disinformation with “ worms in her brains . ”
This is exactlythe eccentric of personconspiracy movements like Pizzagate or QAnon attract : disoriented , ductile hoi polloi searching for acceptance and a purpose . By immersing themselves into an alternating phantasy world with open archetypes of trade good and malefic , they can act as the champion of reality — one of the chosen who can see past the grand thaumaturgy . If it was n’t lizard mass torment children in the basement of a pizza pie parlor , the focus of Duncan and Black ’s fantasies would shift to something else : 9/11 trutherism , mass shooting denialism , New World Order fearmongering , 5 G quackery , organise hatred . Duncan ’s latter half shatters the title fiber ’s illusions of control , impart him to pick up the gory pieces .
Duncan does n’t ask the audience to sympathize with conspiracists or their enablers , just to understand how they got there . And it is undeniably well - executed . Valley ’s film is resplendently shot and its John Carpenter - prompt soundtrack is a standout . In bitchiness of the gloomy issue matter , Duncan is funny — boasting one of the more memorable dick joke in recent computer storage — and Valley grapple to cram it all into the brisk hour and a half playtime typical of a genre which usually has much less to say about the res publica of beau monde .
Some minor stumbles aside , Valley has rive off a mean feat for any director , let alone one making their debut : render a nearly uncomprehensible net movement into a tight , well - scripted celluloid that , unlike the news program , is actually fun to view .
Duncan does n’t have a release date yet , but Valley says he is exploring dispersion options and is hoping to have it available for viewer in 2020 .
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