Before the summer of 1989, Treadwell was both a drug addict and an alcoholic. Cui, who was born in a wealthy middle-class family, was called "an ordinary child" since he was a child. It was not until he entered university that he suddenly became unusual. "He made bad friends, took drugs, skipped classes," as his mother said, all kinds of such things made him eventually persuaded by the school to leave.
Can college days be regarded as Choi’s first strong resistance to life? This is the postponement of his unfinished angry adolescence. Born in a mainstream family, accepting traditional culture and walking on the established track of life, Cui’s free nature was stepped into the corner, suppressed to the extreme, and the free atmosphere of the university provided him with a breathing space, which suddenly released his nature and freedom. Distorted and expanded, mutated into promiscuity, riots and laissez-faire.
This compensatory outbreak will be permanent.
It was in that summer, when Treadwell realized that he could no longer obtain spiritual comfort from pure surface freedom, the Grizzlies appeared in his life as a victim. The only remaining life-saving straw made Treadwell stand up from the collapse. After that, the rescue that he gave the bear life support was at the very beginning, perhaps just by coincidence.
How to say it is the only fruit left, I want to say that Treadwell at that time has become an authentic hippie, as hippies often do, he abused alcohol and drugs into his mysterious heart, advocated individualism, opposed any form of management, and was hostile. Social system. He and his first girlfriend Pearl can be said to be a joking couple. Pearl even used a flattering tone when describing a restaurant accident that she caused on the night of her acquaintance:
"I have a table of guests and they want to have the best dining experience. There are old and young... well, I want to say, I will give it to you, so grand as you will never forget... But the calculation is wrong, the soup exploded, people Screaming and burning up." She danced, and then talked about the sympathy with Treadwell. Cui Yin was called into the manager's room to talk with Pearl while playing a treasure in the store. Both showed an unusually joking air about the accident. Yes, they don't care about anything. So in such an environment, Treadwell has been exhausted. He hates the capital world but can't get rid of dependence on products. As a result, his freedom has fallen into this quagmire of thoughts. The inconsistency in his mind makes him painful and embarrassed. The inner anxiety is being restrained with difficulty, and Pearl vaguely perceives that Cui has a serious anti-social tendency. Fortunately, Treadwell has found the destination that many other hippies are pursuing-a wild paradise beyond the capital world. The Grizzlies lit his alcohol lamp of freedom, and the immediate rage was replaced by another passion.
"I love you, I love you, I love you." Treadwell gave his passionate confession to the animals countless times. Bears, foxes, and even bees. He swore to the camera countless times that I would sacrifice my life for them. Compared to his generosity and passion for animals, he is abnormally repulsive of his kind—people. Cui once complained that the rapid changes in the cloudy and sunny of the women made him quite embarrassed and at a loss; he also said that it would never be possible to abandon his life for a woman. According to people familiar with him, he would react to strangers entering his "territory" with a low growl when he was frightened.
If it’s just a hippie, such Treadwell is already an end point. However, there are exceptions. When Cui’s inner freedom roars out, the need for emotions does not decrease but increases, because he is too afraid of interpersonal relationships driven by real social interests. As well as the failure experience all the time, I think he is indeed forced to change from needing people to needing bears. In fact, Cui has been living in the reserve to promote the protection of grizzly bears, and the grizzly bears in the reserve have always been properly protected by the managers, and 6 percent of the appropriate hunting and killing each year are also within the control range. Perhaps Cui Bixiong needs protection more. He wants to place himself under the umbrella of nature and not be killed by real interests.
This can explain why Treadwell deliberately portrayed himself as a warrior protecting animals. He exaggerated his experience in the wild, deliberately created the illusion of being alone, and even fabricated his origin. In his thinking, society is illusory, and only wild bloody nature is real. All his efforts are intended to create a two-way barrier for himself. While blocking the invasion of external reality, while maintaining one's "pure" character, he tried his best to prevent his body and mind from returning to human society and returning to the injured state again.
In Tibet, monks sometimes go to deep mountain caves alone in order to concentrate on their studies. There are only a few highland barley plants and one Zen seat for a few years. This small room formed by the deep mountain highland barley meditation seat is a paradise for the monks. But Treadwell is more appealing. Behind the barrier, he is not calm. He needs ample love. This has also become the source of his tragedy. He is no longer a hippie, maybe only half, the other, from courtship to control, he is trying to create a paradise for himself.
It is not difficult to find that Choi has decorated himself as the god of the Alaska Peninsula. He attempts to act as the only communicator between humans and animals. He persistently wants to establish an emotional connection with grizzly bears, drinking and drinking at foxes and even fantasizing about rewards and punishments for these natural lives. He is beyond what a person can do, eager to be the point of God. Nietzsche believes that as long as there is a superman's will, a person who surpasses himself and surpasses reality is a superman. In this sense, Treadwell is already a superman. In the film, no one feels sorry for Treadwell. Everyone thinks that he died just right or he died for granted. But I was sorry for him, because he finally saw his own fall, even if he vowed to say that he would die by the bear, I believe he must have never expected this ending. Because he said, I will not die, I am strong enough.
When half of his paradise finally collapsed, he shouted for his girlfriend to run away. What Superman sadly possessed was still a human body. When his head was torn and blood was splashed, he changed back to the original hippie.
View more about Grizzly Man reviews
