Romantics who died by the law of existence

Stan 2022-03-23 09:02:21

Just finished watching The Grizzlies. Treadwell walked into the world of Alaskan grizzly bears with full expectations for all the truth, goodness and beauty in this world, and persisted for 13 years, and finally died in the bear's mouth and died of "the desire to survive by the laws of nature". Of course, this bear is an unfamiliar old bear, not the bear friends he has been with for 13 years. Ahem, you can also think so without seriousness: there are also bad bears and bad bears in the bear... It is not much like the human world. The difference is even more immediate and violent. I believe in the natural laws of species balance, but I am not a complete rationalist. In a way, Treadwell is just bringing together the romantic feelings about harmonious nature in each of us, and the escape is full of Too many dark human societies seek their own life value in the most primitive animals. All of this, from the perspective of ordinary people, he is indeed in a state of self-forgetfulness and arrogance (from begging for rain, cursing the government, crossing the boundaries of human beings and bears...), perhaps it is the existence and disappearance of Treadwell that makes many people renew thought about some questions. At the end of the film, he said: I don't see any loving and intimate expressions on the faces of these bear friends, except for indifference, indifference to survival... I also think about another crazy thing: indifference to survival, I admit, whether it is in nature or human society . Why did he live with those bear friends for 13 summers, but no harm happened? Does the combination of contingency and inevitability really only explains one truth: bears, wild animals, ruthless.

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Extended Reading
  • Dariana 2021-12-26 08:01:01

    The anatomist made us clearly feel what is the Civilization of Timothy Treadwell.

  • Wayne 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    Like 10,000 Years Older, the film consists of collected footage, interviews and commentary, which seems to be the way Herzog has always worked. The director deeply analyzes the protagonist in the play from a personal, natural and cultural point of view in the form of a voice-over, which leaves no room for the audience to play freely.

Grizzly Man quotes

  • Sam Egli: That bear, I think, that day, decided that he had either had enough of Tim Treadwell or that something clicked in that bear's head that he thought 'Hey, you know, he might be good to eat.'

  • Willy Fulton - Pilot: [singing along with song] Now the long horns are gone And the drovers are gone The Comanche's are gone And the outlaws are gone Now Quantro is gone Stan Watie is gone And the lion is gone And the Red Wolf is gone

    Willy Fulton - Pilot: And Treadwell is gone...