Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by njjohn (A) on January 01, 2006 at 07:03:00

In Reply to: most provocative movie of the year for me posted by tunenut on December 31, 2005 at 12:34:08:

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.