— brey 🎀

duplicity means to be double, so to invoke the concept of duplicity is to invoke the concept of a binary. there are two things, and something that is duplicitous is both of them. duplenticy takes this and inserts "plenty." now, plenty here could be read in various ways.

you could read it as plenty as in the idea of there being plenty for everyone, which fits jud as a priest with plentiful grace who has genuine compassion for everyone he meets and wishes to help everyone, even someone he just met over the phone.

but on the other hand, what i want to highlight is how it breaks the binary established by "duplicity." jud's last name reflects how he does not view the world as divided in two, into wolves and sheep, like the priests he talks to at the start of the movie or like monsignor wicks. he believes that there are more shades of grey to it, that there are plenty of kinds of people who need different things and have different relations to faith and the world. and how he believes that that is okay.