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Grizzly Man

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Grizzly Man
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    Rating: R (Restricted)
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    Description: Grizzly Man could easily have been sensational and exploitative, but in the hands of Werner Herzog, it becomes something extraordinary. Herzog was granted exclusive access to over 100 hours of video shot by amateur naturalist, wildlife advocate and troubled loner Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers in Alaska's Katmai National Park, where he grew to know and love the grizzly bears that lived there. He was also killed by one of them, in October 2003, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard, and that seemingly inevitable fate informs every minute of Herzog's riveting combination of Treadwell's video with his own expert filmmaking and unique vision of nature and man. Whereas Treadwell was a naïve nature-lover and social outcast whose sanity was slowly slipping away, Herzog is a pragmatic mythologist who views nature primarily in terms of "chaos, hostility, and murder," and the disparity of their vision results in a magnetic attraction that makes the sum of Grizzly Man greater than its parts. We come to admire the dreamer, the idealist, the failed actor and recovered alcoholic man-child that was Treadwell, and we equally admire the seeker of truth and wisdom that is Herzog. They belong together, in some world beyond our world, where visionaries join forces to create life after death. --Jeff Shannon
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    "There is the smell of death on my fingers."

    So were some of the final words spoken by Timothy Treadwell and recorded by his own video camera in a documentary wherein most of the brilliant footage was shot by the deceased. Let me say at outset that this is an absolutely magnificent film. Its excellence is rarely encountered. Indeed, it is one of the few documentaries I ever longed to play a second time after it finished.

    Treadwell was an environmental activist, and also, as his narrative makes clear, a very emotionally disturbed person. He failed at making it in society so he turned to the wilderness and the world of the "misunderstood" bear as a means to find fulfillment. He went to Alaska every summer to "save them" from poachers, but, as an authority stated, the animals were not in need of saving. Their population was so robust they needed to be culled by hunters each year. That the bears somehow needed Treadwell is just one of the many lies this man embraced. One person phrased it aptly: "He has styled himself the Prince Valiant of the bears."

    The main character is quite pathetic, but the viewer has difficulty feeling sympathy for him due to his negligence in regards to his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard. I have never encountered an individual in my entire life with a bigger death wish that Treadwell. On camera, he imagines his own death several times, yet this supposedly compassionate person stayed with his girlfriend long past the gorged days of summer, and remained amidst the bears while the desperate ones searched for any scrap of nutrients in the hopes of surviving the winter. That he had not ever remained in the grizzly maze past summer before is evidence of his scripting his own demise, and allowing Huguenard to die alongside him was despicable. I'm a very politically incorrect man, and I don't buy into female victimization as a rule-except in this case. Treadwell led the poor woman to her death. Her biggest mistake was trusting the bipolar delusionist in the first place. In the film, he makes repeated references to wishing he were a homosexual, which his words, more so than his obvious effeminacy, suggest that he was struggling with a great many aspects of life. If you ask me, had his girlfriend possessed Gaydar then her death, the only truly tragic aspect of this calamity, might not have occurred. At any rate, Grizzly Man is amazing tour de force.

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    Irony Abounds

    Tim Treadwell was not your normal human, and let's face it, it's the oddballs that get our attention, not those who stay safe and snug in the middle of the herd. The bear footage was the most interesting. The coroner probably is a fine man and a loving husband or father, but he's a little creepy in this film. The ex-girlfriend, Jewel, seemed eager to be cast into the role as Treadwell's "widow." She tried too hard to grieve. Director Herzog's voice overs were perfect in tone and messsage.

    And the protagonist Tim Treadwell, who claimed to despise the civilized world, spent the last 13 years of his life trying to appeal to it through his loving "relationships" with large mammals that desire to have nothing to do with human beings.

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    Hard not to laugh.

    It is all I can do not to say somehting critical about the subject of the movie. Over all though this is a movie worth seeing, maybe not owning though. This movie will make you feel smart for not trying to live with bears. There is a 99.9% chance that you will become distracted from the story line when you find out the Grizzly man has a girlfriend. Remeber the charector in "what about polly" or whatever that hell that movie was with ben stiller and jennifer anniston? Well the freind of ben stiller in the movie is a has-been child star and hires his own film crew to film his own E true hollywood story. This movie smacks of that scene- AND IT'S REAL!
    All that said, do see this movie. The ending is almost comical.

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