Grizzly Man
The Story of Timothy Treadwell
This acclaimed documentary by renowned director Werner Herzog investigates the life of Timothy Treadwell, a grizzly bear activist and fox loving maniac who basically lived with giant grizzly bears for a few months a year for thirteen years until he was finally eaten by one. Unfortunately, he died along with his mysterious girlfriend who was crazy enough to be out there with him making bear movies. They were basically ripped to shreds and eaten by a huge grizzly. Ironically, in this final act, Treadwell would end up responsible for the killing of one of his beloved grizzly friends. They shot the bear, cut it open and out came both bodies in mangled chewed up pieces.
This movie is kind of disturbing in a lot of ways. At first, your expectation is that this guy was a thoughtful activist with lofty bear advocacy dreams and the fact that he comes off weird is because he might be a little "quirky". But by the end of the film, you are just waiting for him to get eaten. Please will one of the bears eat this guy and get this over with! Listening to this guy is difficult. In take after take of his whining about everything from homosexuality to one of the local foxes that took off with his hat, you begin to see that Tim Treadwell was really Tim Notwell. This guy was a basket case. He wanted to get eaten by a grizzly bear. Its all he ever talked about. My favorite part of the movie is when Herzog interviews this guy who states in a serious deadpan manner that he thought the reason Treadwell made it out there so many years without getting killed is because the bears thought he was retarded. I highly recommend checking this film out, but you will have to endure some complete retardation in the process.
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