Aarcflick

 In America today, no one has a lock on the conspiracy theory. It has become the air we breathe, the Kool-Aid we drink, the rabbit hole ideology that defines so many of us. However, conspiracy theories come in all different shapes and sizes. Many are false, some are true. Many are crazy about the bat house, some are more than plausible. They all, in one way or another, function as metaphors: for the forces (within government, corporations, whatever) that collaborate to hide things from us, for the sinister and tantalizing truth we are not allowed to see. They Cloned Tyrone is a slow-burning inner-city sci-fi nightmarish thriller, one that plays into the spirit of conspiracy theory that has often thrived, justifiably, within black culture. The Tuskegee experiment was a conspiracy that happened; its terrible impact on the hearts and minds of African Americans is immeasurable. And in the 1970s, the belief that the CIA, linked by the Vietnam War to the Golden Triangle (the source of mo...