Watching...

Grizzly Man

Fascinating on so many levels.

Truthfully, I don't even know where to begin. As a documentary, the film was well structured with a compelling story arc, and prooved to be well deserving of it's acclaim. As an adventure into the Alaskan wilderness, the film brought us candid video footage that few filmmakers could ever dream of capturing. Timothy Treadwell's home videos serve as hard proof that humans and wild animals can coexist, all the while forming authentic bonds of companionship. But most interestingly was the psychological profile nonfiction director Werner Herzog constructed of Treadwell; a man with a mysterious rhyme and reason for living life. Treadwell's home videos spoke largely of the man's personality, but it was Herzog who crafted Treadwell's raw footage into a compelling storyline, an unpresumptuous representation of one man's life as he chose to live it; with grizzly bears.