Now, please allow me to retell the story of Grizzly Treadwell in the first person, because at a certain moment of watching this movie, I really think I am Grizzly Treadwell.
Okay, now I am Treadwell the Grizzlies. What I want to tell you is my story.
When I was a kid, I was a good boy who looked very well-behaved. My parents are the most typical middle class. Although they don't wipe their Audi cars inch by inch on weekends like some middle class in Germany, their lives are really boring.
When I entered adolescence, I became a master diving player through hard work. Although I did not dance as well as the creamy Tian Liang in China, I still won a college scholarship with my diving expertise.
After entering university, the rebellious and dark side of my body was released. I made many friends. My father thought those of my friends were "bad friends". Then I started drinking and smoking marijuana.
Later, I hurt my back and lost my scholarship. I had to stop my studies and enter the society.
I once dreamed of becoming an actor, but I failed. No matter what I did afterwards, the result was a complete failure. Although my bed skills are great, the girls I like are not willing to sleep with me. Anyway, in the human world, I am just a mess of shit, maybe even worse than shit. I started to drink wildly and took the antidepressant prescribed by the doctor. I thought maybe one day I would die on the street drunk, but I couldn't do anything.
Until one day, I saw wild grizzly bears for the first time in Alaska. I suddenly found my mission in this world, which was to protect those grizzly bears so that they would not become victims of human civilization.
I was 33 years old that year, and every summer I would go to the place where the grizzly bears live. In the bear's world, I rediscovered myself completely lost in the human world. You may say that my purpose is not pure, I do this to regain the recognition of the human world. Maybe I do have such a purpose, but that is definitely not all. I really love those grizzly bears. They are my friends. I am willing to do anything for them, and I am even willing to die for them. I’m not talking about fun, and the ending of my life proves that I’m not talking about fun—when I saw that old grizzly bear was desperate for not being able to find enough food before hibernating, maybe in my In my subconscious mind, I already had the idea of feeding a bear with my body. My only regret is that when the grizzly bear tore my body, I told my girlfriend to leave as soon as possible. She had a chance to escape, but she didn’t want to go. She hit the old grizzly bear with an iron pan in vain, but she and I died in the bear’s belly... The
story is over, now I am no longer Grizzly Treadwell, I'm back to Ding Xiaoyun. I'm sorry I didn't tell Treadwell's story well enough. Fortunately, if you haven't watched "Grizzly Man", you can learn about the story of Grizzly Man Treadwell by watching this movie.
Although the director of the film Herzog was fascinated by Treadwell's story, he still incorporated his seemingly cold worldview into it.
Treadwell regarded the grizzly bear as his friend, but Herzog believed that the grizzly bears had never regarded Treadwell as his friend. He said: "What I always remember is that every bear photographed in Treadwell I have never seen intimacy, understanding, or tolerance. I only see the great indifference in nature. The so-called mysterious world of bears does not exist at all. This look is just lazily looking at food, but Treadwell regards grizzly bears as friends , As a savior.”
In addition, Treadwell said that the world should be harmonious, but Herzog said that this world is not a harmonious world at all, but a world full of chaos, hostility and killing.
Indeed, many things that happen in the bear world will prove that Herzog is right. For example, some male grizzly bears sometimes kill little grizzly bears, so that female grizzly bears will stop producing milk, and male grizzly bears can continue to mate with female grizzly bears. For another example, when food is extremely scarce, adult grizzly bears will share their food with little grizzly bears so that they can continue to live.
Even so, Herzog is also obsessed with the world of bears. This is probably because he has always believed that modern civilization makes people weak, and the human mind is constantly degenerating in ease and pleasure, perhaps only full of savage misery. Only then can modern people get salvation.
In a sense, Treadwell obtained this kind of redemption. He rekindled his once weak and incompetent blood, and he became the favorite brutal lover of women again, just as one of his confidantes recalled, Every time Treadwell bids farewell to this pink confidant, he will say to her: "I love you. This year will be the best year. If I don't come back, I am willing to die. This is the way I want to die."
If a man can set off again and again with the courage to die like Treadwell, then his life and death will naturally have meaning. And this reminds me of a passage that Nietzsche once said: "There was a traveler who traveled all over the world and traveled all over the world. Someone asked him: What is the common problem of humans? He replied: He is comfortable and afraid of traveling."
As for why we travel far, Nietzsche gave the answer more than 100 years ago: "A hidden promise drives us to do something more powerful than all our denials. Our strength itself does not allow us to stay in the moldy In the same place, because we dare to run far away, we dare to do it. Because the world is still rich and undiscovered, even if destroyed, it is much better than becoming nondescript and poisonous. Our strength forces us to drift away. Cross the sea and sail to the place where the past days have sunk. We know that there is a brand new world..."
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