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Your comment reads as if you were there. :) The film is just a film, probably not a true reflection of what happened. Memorable for the performances nonethe

• fennecfoxen 6y ago
  The incident was investigated in detail, with several journals, testimony in court of ten mutineers (of whom only three were hung), as well as the captain's own logs, and more. Much of it is fascinating reading. Bligh's own post-mutiny voyage was nothing short of heroic and he was hailed upon his return. The interesting human study, I think, is the image of Bligh as the earnest, "enlightened captain," but a failure at that: paternalistic, overbearing, out of touch, naïve about the motives and feelings of those serving under him, prone to causing jealousy and resentment, dangerously mixing business and friendship with things like a personal loan to his first mate... and just not self-aware, oblivious to his own anger management issues and the impact of verbal abuse on his officers. You could take real management lessons from that.