I like it. It's CRAZY you all bring this up. Why? Because I've been thinking of this exact thing for awhile now. Rolling it around in my head. Until I finally sat down, put pen to paper, and wrote a script for it. Recently completed too. Noone has read it yet 🙂 I'm still tweeking it. But it's not a documentary. It's a screenplay for a movie. A drama/suspense type. It's theme is the search for Truth in a world where it is so hard to find. It's perfect timing right now for this too. Fake news, etc. How do we tell what is true and real anymore? How do you know it is real when you hear it? Even seeing it, if not with your own eyes. It was inspired by events and experiences in my own life...Here is the gist of it, compressed way down into a really small box...The lead role is the central point. Everything in the script revolves around him and contributes something to the development of his character and carries along the plot. It opens with a scene showing him as a child. He is looking at a globe in a classroom. Spinning it....Fast forward. The kid grows into a man. His curiosity grows. So he becomes a physicist. One that diligently studies and learns all the popular science, theories, and formulas. And generally agrees with most of them. Seeing the holes in them as a challenge. He is an out of the box type thinker. He is mocked by many of his collegues for this attitude. He does not care. He is a loner. He's not the nerdy type though. He is very serious. Intense. Think Russell Crow in Beautiful Mind. One day something catastrophic happens. It changes him physically. It changes him mentally, and physically. Plot accelerates quickly. Strange things start to happen, things only he observes He sees very strange things in his telescope (portals, dome reflections, etc.) It builds and builds until it becomes a frantic grasp for reality. Is God doing this? Is he going crazy? Is it brain damage from the tragic event? Oh, forget to mention. He lives in California and is an avid sailor. This was made known earlier in the movie. Kinda lightly thrown in. Along with alot of other small events that only makes sense when the climax at the end is realized. Anyway, it builds to the brink of madness. Then all of a sudden, he is packing his sailboat for a trip. Where is going? Running away? Vacation?? He starts out from the California coast like always. But he doesn't look relaxed at all. No vacation here. Not running either. He is going somewhere. With intense purpose. He slams down his fist and places his finger on a global map. On Asia. Asia? He picks up another map that we don't see. Where is he going? Asia? Why? He fights a few storms, etc...It all ends with a calm morning. He is looking at a map. He sets it down on a table and gets up to leave. We catch a glimpse of map. But it's different this time. It's a flat Earth map.( Most viewers won't catch this) He walks out onto the deck into the morning light. Camera facing him, he looks in disbelief, dropping his coffee. It shatters on the deck. His utter disbelief turns to joyful laughter. Which turns to tears. He falls down to his knees as the camera pans out and away. Revealing what caused him to react this way...A giant wall of ice. Stretching out in both directions. As far as the eye can see. The camera goes back to him. He is looking up now, wiping away the tears. He is smiling. But this quickly changes too. It changes to curiousity. Because he sees something else now. He suddenly realizes what it is. His face turns to a look of intense anger. He stands up. The camera slowly pans closer. Closer. He is enraged now. But why? What is he looking at now? Then we hear it...it's helicopters. Oh, I forgot to mention. There is a globe that he keeps on the deck of his sailboat. His school teacher gave it to him as a child. Everytime he would walk by it while sailing, he would spin it. Just like he did as a child in the opening scene. Now furiously looking at the approaching helicopters, he suddenly glances down at something. His face immediately relaxes...It's the globe. He smiles innocently and spins the globe. Spins it one last time. He chuckles and shakes his head. The helicopters grow louder. Closer. He looks back up at them. The intensity returns. Suddenly, in one last act of rage, he roars and jerks the globe off of its base. And hurls it at the helicopters still in the distance. It falls harmlessly into the ocean. Breathing heavy now, he plops down onto the deck. He slowly sits up. Puts his face in his hands. Then he looks back up. Its a look of peaceful resolution. He focuses back on the helicopters. They are really close now. (We never see them) He stands up. He says one word, 'OK'. Screen goes black. The key to all this is the viewer never really knows what's going on...the portals, dome reflections, etc. are never explained. The beauty of it is that most ppl know nothing about flat earthers and what they think. The viewer is thinking, what's wrong with this guy? What does all this weird shit mean? But the curiousity grows. It builds and builds to the climax at the end, where it is all realized. But not explained. That part is left to the viewer to go and figure out..Another big key to pulling this off is the obvious things--music, lighting, etc. Theres not alot of dialogue. It's not needed. It would mostly rely on the visual sense to convey the plot and emotion. Finding a GREAT actor would be paramount. Think, The Revenant meets The Truman Show meets Signs meets The Road lol...So there you go. What do y'all think? Honest critiques welcome...I think this has serious potential. Anyone that is connected that is interested in helping me move forward with this project plz send me a pm. Thanks