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In Reply to: Grizzly Man: a brilliant document posted by njjohn on December 31, 2005 at 11:45:29:
Provocative in the best sense in that it provoked my own thought and many conversations as well. I just saw it again on video. Treadwell was obviously deeply disturbed. And yet somehow he got away with his hugely risky lifestyle for 13 summers, so he wasn't an idiot. He actually treated the foxes as though they were his friendly pets and obviously wanted the same type of relationship with the grizzly bears. But they looked at him at least partially as a piece of food. Not exactly the basis for a good relationship. There are many high points in this movie. The coroner is an odd duck, providing good information in an extremely theatrical sort of way. The aerial shots of the Alaska wilderness are purely beautiful cinematography.
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I agree that the scenery was awesome.I don't think that Treadwell was disturbed at all. Whatever disturbance he had was from his upbringing in this society. He began to iron himself out.
I would say he was very sane in the way he related to the animals. You could tell from his interactions that he had a high level on relatedness to the animals although the bears seemed mostly indifferent to him.
Was his anger insane? He was fed up probably appropriately but it is a losing battle. He tuned into something so magnificant and he wanted it to become more important in our world which it just isn't going to happen. So he kind of was in an untenable position.
The weight of it all probably caught up to him and he got more or less in a suicidal position. But as he somewhat predicted, his story, because of his death, fell into the fertile ground of Herzog.
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