by zulumoose wrote:Behind the Curve - Netflix documentary centred on some prominent personalities in the Flat Earth movement.
The movie is largely sympathetic and a portrayal of the type of people involved in this, with the occasional quick word from someone else. I feel like it missed a lot of opportunities to discuss points they raise, and get other perspectives on those points. There are obvious questions begging to be asked which are simply not raised. Fact checks are not done.
I love how the flat earthers supported a couple of fairly good ways of investigating curvature and rotation of the earth, yet managed to reject their own results which supported a curved, rotating earth.
They reject modern science as dogmatic, and not following the evidence, yet when they fund experiments of their own to overcome this "dogma", they set out with a specific conclusion they want to obtain, and when the experiment doesn't show this, the conclusion is that the experiment needs to be redesigned.
I found the movie interesting but not very entertaining, for me it mainly supports the idea that people who feel rejected see conspiracy, seek each other out, and are ripe fodder for cultish groups and channels. It is probably very addictive getting sucked down the rabbit hole with people who seem to have more in common with you than anyone else you have met.
A reasoned response?
