Grizzly Man

[AEZMama]

There was a thread a while back about this, but in case anyone wanted to see the film it's on Discovery right now. I'm sure they'll replay it again.

[beansricerevolt]

oh I so this movie. Im sad I missed the first thread

[FoxintheSnow]

I watched it the other night and the hour commentary that followed. I thought it was really good. I cant get the idea though of him and his girlfriend getting torn to shreds by the grizzly. But it seems like it was bound to happen sooner or later. But still really sad.

[Doodlebugsmom]

I watched it over the weekend. I really enjoyed it, but thought it was very sad. The guy seemed a little whacky, but I think he had the best of intentions. It was so hard watching him and knowing that he isn't alive anymore.

[Anuska]

Oh I just saw the movie. How interesting.....and so very very sad.

Timothy Treadwell was a bit of an eccentric and a bit into himself, but I believe too, his intention and motives where good, just misplaced.

He loved the bears....truly, but he invaded their territory one to many times. Most people knew his death would be inevitable if he kept up his work......and he had been warned so many times.

He died what he loved doing....however...

the one I truly feel sorry for is his girlfriend Amy. What terror those last moments must have been for her.

[shanagirl]

DH and I watched it. We had a very empathetic feel toward the story and were prepared to be drawn in to his world, but I felt very distanced from Timothy. When I watched the footage of him with the bears, the vibe I was getting from the bears was that his presence and talking were annoying them. At one point my husband said, "They (the bears) are just tolerating him." So I felt Timothy was deluded about his place in their world. What I found most interesting was when he talked about how much harder it is to get along with people, women, in particular, for him. That really gave a glimpse into why he might have been driven to romanticize bears and feel that he had a 'special' relationship with them.

I loved when Werner Herzog listened to the tape of Timothy's death and said to Timothy's friend, "You must never listen to this. You must destroy it." That, for me, was the antidote to so much horror and violence which is artificially created in movies today and how sad that makes me, that people want to experience it. Here was the real thing, and a real human saying, this is unbearable.

Oh my, no pun intended.