Rewatched this movie and wanted to comment about Dr Mann as a character. Brand depicts him as the “best of us”, pretty interesting when you realize he’s based on Kurtz from Joseph Conrad’s “heart of darkness” (and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”). Mann is spoken of having a great mind yet loses this great mind when cut off from civilization. The name Mann also represents the weakness of mankind, not to mention this movie literally takes us into the very…
