Genesis
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Idea for a Sci-Fi Film
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Short Synopsis of Genesis
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I had an idea tonight.
We could have a mentally ill person dreaming up that kind of universe I was
discussing with you tonight, the primordial soup of electrons appearing in a blank
space, and galaxies forming and finally dream up in ones mind some planet with
people on it.
Actually, let’s dream
up a world that does not make any sense from what we already know. Our mentally
ill person is schizophrenic suffering from hallucinations and cataleptic fits. He
sees a doctor regularly to talk about his fits and hallucinations, his
disconnected reality where not much makes sense.
But in his mind he has recurring
dreams coming back, one with a weird disconnected universe with a single
humanity in it, living perhaps in space without any need for spacesuits. They
have built houses and stuff to be able to move and live in space, we will have
to think of how such a civilization could live in space, and what technology
they would have needed to invent to feed, drink, etc. Perhaps they don’t need
to feed or drink, perhaps their life is very different than ours in many ways. Imagination
is the limit here.
However these people
have developed their own philosophies, religion, and theoretical physics, and
somehow found a way to contact their god, our mentally ill patient. And though
he is now constantly in communication with them in dreams, it starts to impede
on his life while he is awake. And somehow they will find a way to control
their god, and make him do things he should not do as they understand better
the real world in which we live. They hold him hostage, and have unreasonable
demands for their god, they want our patient to create new stuff for them, new
technology, new ways to explore the rest of the universe. And since nothing
more has been thought of in our patient’s mind apart from their world, they now
want a real creation, like the one we have right now, so they can also explore
and get out of where they are.
At some point it is destroying
the mind of our schizophrenic patient, and after a major cataleptic fit or
stroke, their world cease to exist for a while. Until our patient turns it back
on when he gets back to normal. They understand that if they don’t help their
god to survive and get better, they will vanish forever. So they work with him
to cure him and ultimately they don’t, but return him to some normality.
By doing so, or perhaps
by curing him, they seal their fate, as now our schizophrenic guy believes he
dreamt up all this humanity and weird world, that it was just an illusion or
hallucination in his own mind. He was just hearing voices. And so he decide to
let them all die in some catastrophic event in order to find some closure and
move on with his life.
Our humanity can now
read his mind, his thought, can see what he sees in the real world, and so have
to come to a compromise with our patient so they can survive. And then they
find a solution. They create a real big universe filled with mysteries that our
humanity will be able to explore in time. They come up with the idea of a
relative time, so in a few seconds for our patient, they will have the time to
live for millions of years.
They are moved to a
planet and correct much of the big mistakes our mentally ill patient did while
dreaming this disconnected world based on his distorted views of our actual
reality. In essence, they will recreate the world we live in, and leave them on
their own for millions of years, while for our mentally ill patient will now be
able to move on and not give it another thought. He will be able to check them
up sometimes, influence the world a bit (sending his son Jesus for example),
but that’s it.
In essence the film
shows how our humanity could have started just from the mind of a mentally ill
patient living in a similar world than the world we live in. First an imperfect
world that did not make much sense to anyone, but now recreated to look normal
and logical, whilst helping our patient seeing the world he lives in as it
really is (curing him).
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