The other end of the lens

Darion 2021-12-26 08:01:01

The radical animal protector Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers with grizzly bears in the Alaska Reserve before his death, and left a large number of "unprecedented" close contacts with grizzly bears — the camera even recorded the death of him and his girlfriend A moment of bear mouth. Many years later, director Werner Herzog got these materials, plus the interview fragments with Treadwell's relatives, friends and colleagues and his own dictation, and finally the film Grizzly Man.

Originally thought he would release that fragment in the film , Thinking about it now, it’s really unnecessary
...because we already know the ending of this story.
There was no blood in 103 minutes, but it seemed like a live-action version of Blair Witch Project, which made my hair creepy.
According to the director, without editing Part of the clip was taken by his girlfriend Amie, who has always refused to show up, and the rest was done by Treadwell himself. However, in the dense forest several times, Treadwell monologized his bleak past in front of the camera and talked about the grizzly bear. When he changed his life, when he emphasized fiercely that he wanted to fight the so-called "grizzly bearer" to the end, what is on the other end of the lens?
Or the dark other half is undecided...

at that end In the summer of the summer, his girlfriend wrote in his diary that he had a tendency to self-destruct, but he was unwilling to admit it himself. From the expressions and tone of the people, they had a foreboding of Treadwell's death, let alone him?
He was a beast. The almost crazy love, and the dislike of human civilization, are destined to one day sacrifice themselves to this altar;
for him, staying away from the "evil" crowd, resting in the embrace of nature is the most perfect Ending...

Timothy Treadwell finally got everything he wanted.
The price was the life of an innocent woman and the gloomy second half of a pair of elderly people.

(I have to mention that the visits of relatives and friends are too artificial, which is the biggest failure of the movie.)

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Extended Reading
  • Shyanne 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    The material of Timothy and the bear coexisting is like a kind of "Xanadu", full of romantic and lyrical temperament; Herzog's interview is like sulfuric acid eroding this sweet atmosphere, making people feel the embarrassing situation between the human and the grizzly bear. . Whatever you believe, the irrefutable fact that Timothy died under the claws of a grizzly bear makes the conclusion seem self-evident and further validates the director's pessimistic view - and this is what saddens me the most in the whole movie place.

  • Alysa 2022-04-20 09:01:57

    "Cinema Mad" director Werner Herzog

Grizzly Man quotes

  • [last lines]

    Werner Herzog: What remains is his footage. And while we watch the animals in their joys of being, in their grace and ferociousness, a thought becomes more and more clear. That it is not so much a look at wild nature, as it is an insight into ourselves, our nature. And that, for me, beyond his mission, gives meaning to his life and to his death.

    Willy Fulton - Pilot: [singing along to Richard Thompson's "Coyotes", substituting Timothy Treadwell's name at strategic places]

  • Timothy Treadwell: We're gonna need more rain. We need more rain! Downey is hungry! Tabitha's hungry! Melissa is eating her babies!