i would give it a 7, its quite a ride with many positives..
i find it incredible that i have to correct you on this issue seeing as i've seen the movie once but you quite often.
Amelia states that evil isn't out there (in nature/universe) but in man (Mann!) and it turns out to be true, she isn't wrong.
I guess I assume 'man' is part of nature and that the forces in play are what turn people. For example, she makes a statement about how if a tiger kills a gazelle it doesn't make it evil. That's just nature.
But yes I think your interpretation is better (more correct) than mine. Another premonition; they're littered throughout the film.
EDIT: I just read the novelization of the movie and it appears it's kind of meant to be an open question:
“Tell me about Dr. Mann,” he said.
A new world came up on screen, white and grainy.
“Remarkable,” she said. “The best of us. My father’s protégé. He inspired eleven people to follow him on the loneliest journey in human history.” A different sort of passion flared in her eyes, and he saw some of her father there. “Scientists, explorers,” she said. “
That’s what I love. Out there we face great odds. Death. But not evil.”
“Nature can’t be evil?” Cooper said.
“Formidable,” Brand said. “Frightening—not evil. Is a tiger evil because it rips a gazelle to pieces?”
Cooper reflected on that. If you were the gazelle, he mused, it was a moot point what was going on in the tiger’s heart and soul—whether it was evil, or just staying alive. Plenty of human beings had justified immensely evil acts in the name of survival and the “natural order of things.”
“Just what we bring with us then,” he said. He didn’t want to get into a real argument, but stubbornly found himself unwilling to let the point slide past completely.
Apparently she noticed.
“This crew represents the best aspects of humanity,” Brand said, a little testily, but he let it go. Why start the trip with a pointless philosophical argument? They had to live with one another for a long time.”
