Just Watched: Grizzly Man
Grizzly Man Ostensibly this is a documentary about Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived among wild bears in Alaska and who in the end was killed by the bears. It is a visually beautiful but tragic tale told with compassion and respect for both the bears and Treadwell. But ultimately this is a documentary about an obsessive filmmaker by a an obsessive filmmaker. If you know anything about Herzog's previous films like Aguirre, the Wrath of God or Fitzcarraldo it's hard not draw parallels and to see Timothy Treadwell as both a Kinski-esque madman and Herzog himself. Timothy Treadwell shot much of the footage seen in the film and it's breathtaking stuff. The intimacy he shares with the bears and other animals around him is amazing. It's impossible to not describe his actions as reckless and borderline insane but at the same time he gets such joy from the animals that you grow to understand him; he was a man living on the true edge both physically and metapho