Just wondering what everyone thought...I thought it was fascinating, and the music was great. Treadwell was mentally ill though...I think he had good intentions, but going out and interacting with wild bears is stupid and puts them at risk for getting used to human contact..not safe for them or for people.
I saw it and thought the movie tried to pity him for being pretty crazy and going to his death. Its nuts that his "girlfriend" (Pretty sure he was gay) was with him the whole time and not filmed once. And it was nothing like I expected it to be.
I only saw about an hour of this film and I agree...he was doing good work but trying to live among fucking grizzly bears is just plain crazy. Darwin is laughing his ass off in his grave right now. What I saw was pretty interesting though.
it was unintentionally funny and full of great one-liners from his idiotic friends. one of the most entertaining movies i have ever seen. i thought he was gay, too. certainly seemed it. theres also a lot of hints in his confessions to the camera. certainly likely
I thought he was gay because the movie explicitedly said that he was living with one woman and not sleeping with her. Then when another woman was asked if they were lovers she laughed. Besides he was in love with nature, his mind was full of fantasys of man-bear sex, oh no forget that last part. Anyway I thought it was kind of funny too, an easy movie to make fun of
i thought it was interesting too. i also wondered how a man trying to help bears could think it a good idea to get so close to them. most bears that end up having to be destroyed is due to humans interacting too closely. his footage was incredible though you have to admit. i also got lots of funny one liners. my favorite has to be "we need rain, melissa'a eating her cubs!" i'm using that one next time we need rain, lol! i also had to laugh when he was touching the bear poop, hee-hee! at the same time he seemed to have an uncanny communication with the animals to have survived as long as he did, don't you think? kathy
Yeah it was a beutiful movie in the scenery, and close shots of the bears, especially when he touched one and it almost snapped him. Xplay did a parody of Grizzly Man, and even though I made fun of him as I watched the movie, for some reason their parady of it seemed offensive.
I beleive he loved Bears so much that he wanted to become one with them and their Spirit....Being eaten alive was the perfect way....
I really liked it, i thought it was so awesome that he got that close to the animals. Like the fox and him running with it, amazing. But i do agree that it was stupid to be with the animals and put him and the bears in danger.
I think that he had great intentions on trying to be one with the bears, however I don't think he went about doing it the right way. I really did like the film though, I watched it in my English class as an extra lecture when we were learning about Transcendentalism
It is unusual to see a mainstream american attempting to follow a connecting path to nature and animal spirit And as we saw in the film, even today's reservation natives have become too disconnected to relate intimately to the animal totems of shaman journeys. It was interesting watching this young man trying so desperately to cleanse himself of mainstream america's cultural poison of alienation from nature. The effeminate gay-likeness that was so obvious in his demeanor may have been his psyche's effort to connect to his more intuitive and empathetic yin energy. That's what made his journey possible in the first place. The reason his yin and yang energy appeared so clumsy and out of balance is that, unfortunately, the psyche has to over-compensate because of our culture's enculturated imbalanced patriarchal fear of the yin to begin with. Thirteen years of somewhat significant totem connection is remarkable under the burden of such circumstances.
