"a literal heart of darkness".

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2015)

As they first enter the black hole Doyle declares that it is a literal heart of darkness;and so begins Nolan powerful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's masterpiece 'Heart of Darkness' Conrad's mariners tale of marlow's journey into an uncharted and un-mapped Africa in search of the enigmatic Kurtz is an exact mirror of Coop's journey to find the equally mysterious Mann.
Heart of darkness is a metaphor for a search for the true nature of man in a society that removes us from ourselves. in interstellar the search is literally for Mann who consequently turns out to be equally disappointing and can not live up to the eulogizing made by people who had once known him.
As in both adaptations the answers lie in the journey and not in the destination and that before we critique society we are made aware that society is the one thing that keeps us from our true buried nature that reveals it self in fleeting moments - the animal in us, the naked urges and desires.
Heart of darkness has often been describe by the socialist left as racist, similarly when coop reaches cooper station we can see that it is not a broad section of the community that the leaders of this world have saved. There is no ethnic diversity, only white people are deemed fit to be saved from the disaster of the earth. Possibly the same people who were going to bomb people to solve the world food shortages.
This is not the first adaptation of Conrad's tale - Apocalypse Now did a similar take but this was closer to Conrad's novel; so much so that when i think of kurtz i always see Marlon Brando peeling eggs
lastly, the soundtrack is both foreboding and brilliant.
thank you This is my first review