Behind the Curve (2018)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2018
	Director: Daniel J. Clark
	Actors: Mark K. Sargent, Jeran Campanella, Robbie Davidson
	Country: USA
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 21.03.2019, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: About the growing community of people that actually believe the Earth is flat.
Review: I won't enter the debate of whether this is a valid opinion or not (I am working in Astronomy), to rather focus on the cinematographic qualities of this Documentary. It is well done, and draws an accurate portrait of what this story is all about (at least it looked like it), which is better than trying to get some information from a troll-flooded web. We get to know the facts, the history of the movement and the different factions: believers against scientists, but also believers among themselves (the comparison with the one scene from the Monty Python's Life of Brian is so relevant). But the best thing I found in Behind the Curve is that instead of trying to debunk one or the other opinion, we get to hear the analysis of people about the movement: psychologists, but also scientists how have given it a good amount of thought, and the most open-minded members of the movement as well when they manage to step back a little. Ah, sorry, I couldn't help, my review is not neutral anymore. Because I think there was no point for the Documentary in showing battles of theories and proofs (you can waste your time on tons of websites for that), but rather look at the psychology behind the movement, which in my opinion is what it is about. No coincidence either that many members (including Mark Sargent) have ended up there after a lifelong investigation of conspiracy theories. As I already lost my neutrality, I can add that one thing I found not cool in the movement is that members drag their children into it. Please leave children out of this and let them forge their own opinion when they grow up. We have enough obscurantism and religion wars in the world as it is without dragging more children into this one.
Rating: 7 /10