Duffer is a fucked up movie about a young man and his fucked up relationship with an older man. The older man, Louis-Jack, is psychotic, and he consistently harms and toys with the young man (who is called Duffer). We get all of this in narration, although we also see a great deal of it. But there is no diegetic sound in the movie itself; the entirety of the film's sound information is in voiceover. This is disorienting and strange, especially because sounds loop around or repeat incessantly.
Duffer tells us what he's doing, what he does with his friend, a prostitute he calls Your Gracie, and what he does with Louis-Jack. Things are weird – in a British, 1960s theatre sort of way, I guess – but then Louis-Jack decides he wants to get Duffer pregnant and things take quite a gruesome turn.
This movie was never released in the U.S., and it's difficult to tell when it was released in the UK – 1971? 1972? Who's to say?
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