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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2005 DVD Release : 26 December, 2005 |
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Grizzly Man 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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| It is hard to distinguish a review of the documentary from a review of the reckless behavior of Timothy Treadwell itself, but I will try to be fair. First, as to Treadwell the person, let's make no mistake about it: he was not a scientist or conservationist, what he ever wanted was nothing more than fondling with the bears he claimed to "love". To him, bears were just a substitute for the narcotics that he used to use. What he loved was himself and himself only. From the ever-so-queuer way he talked to the bears one had to agree with one of the people interviewed in the movie: he treated the bears as people wearing bear costumes, and yes, I agree with the same person who said that he crossed the line and got what he deserved.
What is sad is that the bears he tried to "protect" had to be shot dead. And what is ironic is that he mostly roamed in federally protected lands. Those bears did not need his "protection". If he wanted to protect bears, he should have gone back to where he came from and started educating people about conservation. And what made him think that he was a "protector" of bears? Did he think he was God incarnate? What is amazing is that he actually had a girlfriend who went along with him. It is beyond belief that anyone would actually trust her life with such an apparently mentally problematic person. Ultimately, I suppose, we are the decisions we make -- she probably also deserved her fate for her poor judgment. I know I may sound insensitive, but this is what I feel -- I don't think I am being insensitive, on the contrary, I think I am just speaking the truth, however painful it may be. Back to the documentary, I guess I did get some information from it, so I gave it 2 stars instead of 1. What I don't understand why make it so long? It can be summed up in a 5-minute news cast at most. Here's my try: "Young Caucasian male with history of mental instability and obsessed with himself, went to Alaska to mess with bears, got eaten along with girlfriend." |
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