"Thank you for being my friends, I love you, and I will die for you!"
—Timothy Treadwell
It has been 17 years since 2003.
If Timothy Treadwel is still alive, how will he start the 63rd year of his life in this messy 2020? If the hypothesis is true, I guess, there may be a legend of "30 years with bears" born in this world.
With dazzling blond hair and slightly funny sunglasses, he looks a little out of place in the primitive wildness. Katmai National Park in Alaska is Timothy's resident place, because there is a creature he cares about here - the grizzly bear .
Baidu Encyclopedia: Grizzly/brown bear, grizzly bear is one of the largest mammals in the order Carnivora on land, with a body length of 1.5-2.8 meters, a shoulder height of 0.9-1.5 meters, and a weight of 680 kilograms. Reach a speed of 55 kilometers per hour.
Camping on the Katmai Beargrass Open Ground early in each season, he sees himself as the guardian of the land, fighting the bad guys who try to harm the grizzly bears with the grace of a brave prince.
During his thirteen years in this meadow, he named every bear he encountered, calling the fierce bear "Grumpy Bear" and the color resembling chocolate "Chocolate"; in the face of them, he often revealed his affectionate affection .
The infatuated "love" was originally a hymn to make people addicted to this scene between man and bear, but step by step, it added irony, contempt and madness to the whole incident.
-life and death-
On October 5, 2003, a hurricane with winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour was making strides in the green. On the other side, a bloody storm is about to start.
A 28-year-old, 1,000-pound, hungry old bear was approaching the camp where Timothy and his girlfriend Amy were stationed, and then a harsh scream and swallowing murmur, mixed with wind and rain, immersed in the vast expanse of birth and death. earth.
The lush mountain forest suddenly lost its green color, leaving only loneliness and blood.
The next day, Timothy's friend Willie flew a plane to pick him up as usual, and found that this mountain forest gave birth to a silence and strangeness that was different from Su Ri.
Willie shuddered as he followed the trail looking for them. There was only a set of human ribs, and Willie knew that it was either Timothy's or Amy's.
At a glance, not far away, there is a bear lying on the side, fast eating. Shocked by the scene in front of him, he quickly jumped on the plane and immediately contacted the staff of the park, "Something went wrong."
Then they rushed to the scene immediately, and in order to avoid the bear's "cannibalism", they had to shoot it. In the 85 years since the Katmai Reserve was established, Timothy and his girlfriend were the only visitors to be eaten by a bear, who was also the only bear to be shot for cannibalism.
When cleaning up the scene, 4 large bags of human bones, human carcasses, and clothing were pulled from the bear's stomach.
Investigators found that at the time of the incident, the shoes were neatly placed in front of the tent, and the lens cover of the camera was not removed. Although no video was recorded, the *tape (see the end of the article) was running, and they heard Amy's screams and mentions. Moses' moan. Hearing "Stop" and "Go away" could also be "Run away", the background noise is loud, and Amy is hitting a bear in the head with a frying pan. Timothy said, "Run, leave me alone, run Amy." Amy was very firm. When people's abilities were tested to the maximum, she stayed and chose to fight side by side with Timothy.
Obviously, the world doesn't always perform miracles.
Cleaner:
"They were born to kill cannibals, and he delivered it himself. He threw himself in the net and got what he deserved, and tragically he also killed the girl."
Museum curator:
"Eskimos and bears have coexisted for more than 7,000 years, and he has never seen a person like Timothy. Why does he want to live with bears and shoot images with them? Infringing on the bear's autonomous domain, doesn't he feel that this is an insult to bears? Disrespectful?"
Patrolman:
"You deserve it, camping next to the bear trail and saying "don't violate the bears" is bullshit. Even if these bears "accept" Timothy, it's not necessarily a good thing for the bears, because if there are poachers, the bears will Thinking that people are harmless, they don't know how to avoid and guard against them, but instead they harm bears. "
-straw-
Timothy wrote in his diary that the world of people is a little unfamiliar. He clearly distinguishes between the world of bears and the world of people. The distinction is getting clearer and clearer, and the primitive nature in the wild really makes him feel at home.
When *documentary director Herzog (see the end of the article) walked to the glacier deep in the grizzly sanctuary, the huge and complex between the abyss completely separated Timothy from the outside world. He understands that this ever-changing landscape is a metaphor for his soul.
In 1957, Timothy was born in Long Island, New York, into a wealthy family.
Good student, doesn't cause trouble, gets along well with animals. It's what his parents say about him. His growth path is the same as that of ordinary American boys, handsome, healthy and bright.
But somehow, the trajectory of his life has shifted.
He made some bad friends, drank, lied, smoked marijuana, played with guns, and nearly died. In order not to let others think that he was just an idle person, he compiled a tragic life experience of a British orphan from Australia to arouse the sympathy of others.
The decadent life did not turn around until he came to the Katmai Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, where he was amazed to discover the power aesthetics of grizzly bears, indulging in their primitive brutality and roughness. From this came the mission to protect them to the death, for which he quit drinking and taking drugs.
A prodigal son who almost died from drug addiction, came to his senses for ecological protection. He turned back and grabbed the straw.
Timothy's life has been turned upside down because of Grizzly.
Living unsuspectingly in the wild with grizzly bears for 13 years has made him widely known in the United States, frequently visited on TV shows, and often active in campus grizzly conservation promotions. Thousands of children have made his moving stories a shining light in their school memories.
He gained a lot and slowly healed himself. All is well.
But the straw he held tightly was neither pure nor natural. It seemed to slowly ooze venom over time.
-struggle-
In the summer of 2000, when the drought lasted so long and the stream level was so low that no grizzly ration of salmon passed by for weeks, the hungry bears began to eat their own kind.
Timothy complained in the tent, blaming nature for being ruthless, and blaming the rain for not coming.
There was a howling in the middle of the night, and a fox cub was killed. His sorrow came from it, and he asked the sky and the earth.
But he always seems to ignore the fact that bears are predators in nature, and that the denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
Timothy kept complaining to the Grizzly Bear Protection Organization, denouncing laws such as "prohibiting long-term camping in the same place", "needing to camp 1.6 kilometers away", and "keep a distance of at least 90 meters from bears", and blatantly disobeyed them in action. Just to personally observe and protect the grizzly bear.
In order to better protect animals, Timothy began to declare war on the government.
We gradually understand that he may not be fighting a protection organization or a government.
What he is fighting against is human civilization itself.
If you want to try your best to escape the shackles of human society, you must be independent of nature.
- Redemption? escape? -
Documentary director Herzog talks about Timothy, saying that he has a "Disney-like" understanding of the wilderness, full of romance and unrealistic feelings.
Just like the teddy bear that hugs him tightly, he regards it as his patron saint, a spiritual utopia, and the beginning of his escape from reality.
When he thought he could hide from the world by hiding in the deep mountains, he began to walk up to the altar of the grizzly bear step by step.
Lost in the dejected life with nowhere to put yourself in the civilized world. He seemed to be attracted by the song of a siren, and he was constantly immersed in it, wishing to say love to the grizzly bear, ignoring the fundamental killing law of the weak, and dedicating his companionship and protection.
For him, it was a one-and-done redemption.
Every time he wandered in the wild world, every angry argument, every paranoid and proud look. It is the "Second Life" he created, a new life without looking back on the past. He stops for what he considers the "romantic and innocent" world of grizzly bears, seeking refuge and destiny in the boundless wilderness.
In my opinion, it is more like a desperate escape across the border.
-Fate-
Not ignorant of the risks, he once admitted that "camping in the grizzly zone is dangerous, and I'm on the verge of bodily harm or even death threats." He knew his life was on the line. But he could still say, "I would never kill a bear just to defend my life, nor would I go to a bear's home and kill a bear. "
He knew very well that death was destiny.
Herzog commented with emotion: "He is full of life, seeking harmony and redemption. He is a great man. He is the essence of mankind, with all the shortcomings of mankind, just like us."
When we look at his images, we see not only the wild and nature, but our nature and ourselves.
At the end of the film, the director inserted a song "Coyotes" as the end.
As the lyrics say, "He'd say all that's left now of the old days", all he has left is the past.
What about us?
What do we have?
What can be left?
*Small addition
*Director Werner Herzog, one of the four great new German filmmakers, is one of the most important directors in the history of world cinema. So far, he has more than 70 works, and his representative works include "Aguir", "God's Wrath", "Overland Boat", "Desert Queen", "Salt and Fire", etc. His works express the original nature. Charm, and inject strong humanitarian care into it.
Grizzly Man uses footage extracted from more than 100 hours of video footage shot during the last five years of Timothy's life. After Herzog re-edited and added the finished interview, the film was also recognized by the industry as the most balanced documentary by Herzog.
*An audio clip of Timothy and Amy being attacked has leaked out on the internet. For some reason, this banned recording appeared on the internet. Curiosity drove me to turn on the audio, and my little guts allowed me to listen to it at the lowest volume. Roaring, helplessness, and despair are vividly conveyed through the sound. The sound alone made me shudder. I dared not imagine, knowing that it must be more bloody than bloody.
(The public account [Storage Room] intercepted 60 seconds of audio in the background, and the reply "recording" can be heard. But be sure to decide whether to listen or not according to your own situation.)
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